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The Davies Card Counting System for Beating the Royal Match Side Bet
By John Leib(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XIV #1, March 1994)
© 1994 Blackjack Forum
An advertisement for the Davies System appeared in Blackjack Forum, December 1993, along with a short review by Arnold Snyder. The purpose of the Davies Card Counting System is to profit from the âRoyal Matchâ proposition on some blackjack layouts.
Just What Is âRoyal Matchâ?
The Royal Match wager is offered before a round is dealt, and is independent of the blackjack implications of the play of the hand. The amount which can be wagered is limited by the casino, but is generally related to the amount wagered on the blackjack hand.
The Royal Match wager wins when the first two cards dealt to the wagering hand are of the same suit; otherwise the wager is lost. If the wager is a winner it is paid off at odds of 3 to 1 (4 for 1), unless the cards are the king and queen, in which case the odds are 10 to 1.
Obviously, there are some situations in which the Royal Match wager has a positive expectation for the player. (A clear example would be 13 cards remaining, all hearts.) The Davies System relies on a counting scheme and attendant strategy table to select the rounds on which the Royal Match wager should be made.
Testing the Davies System for the Royal Match Side Bet
I was immediately interested in this new money-making opportunity so, at Arnoldâs suggestion, I wrote to CCS and Associates, the publisher of the Davies System, offering to perform an independent, unbiased analysis, and to publish the results in Blackjack Forum if, and only if, they and I had agreed to this beforehand.
By return mail I received a copy of the Davies System and a letter signed by Lee R. Bakewell, whom I presume is a principal in CCS and Associates. The letter showed interest in my proposal, but did not agree at that time to publication of the results.
On January 5th I got their agreement to evaluate the Davies System and to publish the results. For system comparison purposes, I included a parallel evaluation of perfect Royal Match decisions (taking the wager whenever it had a positive expectation). Both faced the same situations at every card level from 47 remaining to 6 remaining, in 50 million randomly shuffled decks. Table 1 contains the results of the simulations used in that evaluation.
What Do The Davies Count System Simulations Say?
The first question I had was, âHow efficient is the Davies System?â The meaning of âefficiencyâ in this context is the ratio of winnings using the Davies System to what would theoretically be possible using perfect play. This turned out to be a question which had 42 answers, one for each level of penetration.
I had decided that the best playing situation to hope for on a continuing bases would be head-to-head play, with seven rounds dealt before shuffling. So what were the meaningful levels in going through the deck? Clearly, the first round is out because we know the Royal Match expectation for this round is -3.77%. So I approximated the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th rounds as coming with 45, 39, 33, 27, 21, and 15 cards remaining, respectively. (You may not like my choices. If not, the raw data is in the table so you can select your own.)
One might suggest playing out the blackjack hands to get the specific penetration for each round, for each deck. I agree with the purity of such an approach, and welcome anyone to do their own 50 million decks of corresponding data. I doubt that the effort would be worth it, but I would be very happy to see how closely we agree.
It may surprise you how well the Davies System did on the question of efficiency. Averaged over the selected penetration levels, it extracted 75.49% of what would have been the reward for perfect play. This is impressive because the Davies System is quite simple, but yet is quite powerful.
Hourly Royal Match Win Rates
Is Royal Match for you? Well, what are your goals? As a curiosity, the Royal Match can be beaten. But for how much? Can you retire on your Royal Match winnings?
Let us return to âthe best situation for any system: head-to-head play, with seven rounds dealt before shufflingâ. Using my selected levels for Royal Match wagering opportunities and $50 wagers whenever a wager is called for, perfect play returns an average of only $3.24 per deck played, while the Davies System returns $2.44. You can, of course, select your own levels and calculate your own winnings per deck.
At $2.44 per deck, what does this imply in money-making terms? If we are fortunate enough to get 200 rounds per hour, with seven rounds per deck we would expect to get about 29 decks per hour, yielding about $69.84 per hour.
Enough to live on, of course, but will you generally get this kind of game? If you find yourself with six other players, the $50 Royal Match wager returns per deck (30 cards remaining) 24 cents with perfect play and 21 cents with the Davies System. With 35 decks per hour, this translates into $7.30 per hour. This may not be enough to live on, and you must contend with playing blackjack too, and may have a difficult time with the count for that.
Some methods of play can improve the average winnings per deck. For example, if the player always takes two hands when the Davies System calls for it on the sixth round (21 cards lef) this round would return an additional 48 cents per deck on $50 Royal Match wagers. This might come at a stiff price, however, by reducing the likelihood of a seventh round, which shows a profit of $1.55 (and there would be a strong correlation between wagering on the sixth round and wagering on the seventh round). If, however, you do get the seventh round after this two-hand sixth round, it will come significantly deeper into the deck, perhaps with 13 cards remaining and its attendant $2.12. If you are getting seven rounds per deck, it may be better to try spreading to two hands on the seventh round (15 cards remaining). If this works, it would increase the per-deck return by $1.55.
So much of the success of the Davies System depends on how deep the dealer goes before shuffling. This would appear to be more important than how many hands per hour you play because of the great increase in expectation with penetration.
How to Read the Davies Royal Match System Simulation Tables
The table has four columns: LEFT, TxS-BETS, TxS-EDGE, and EST-EDGE, where âxâ indicates which decision criterion was used: âPâ for âPerfectâ, âDâ for âDaviesâ. LEFT indicates the deck penetration, and gives the unseen cards at the moment of making the Royal Match wager decision. TxS-BETS shows how many times in 50 million decks that the x-algorithm indicated the wager should be made. TxS-EDGE shows the return on those wagers for each unit wagered, divided by 50 million, and is given in percent. EST-EDGE is the sum of the theoretical advantages for those wagers divided by 50 million, and serves as a check on the simulation. These values will be close to those in the preceding column if the simulation is correct.
For calculating effectiveness, actual results of the wagers (TxS-EDGE) were used, not the values in the EST-EDGE. To find the amount won per deck on $50 Royal Match wagers, add the values in the TxS-EDGE column at the levels of penetration expected when Royal Match wagers may be made. Divide this value by 2 to get the per-deck winnings in dollars.
Parting Comments on the Royal Match Side Bet
Royal Match will probably never make anyone rich at the table, but it does offer some positive expectation opportunities which can be tapped for additional profit. The Davies System provides a fairly strong approach to these profits, yet is quite simple. It does take work to prepare for casino play, and probably more concentration than most effective blackjack card counting systems.
The question of whether attention to the Davies System count will cost the blackjack counter more in blackjack win than that won from Royal Match remains unanswered at this writing. If you have mastered basic strategy and that is what you play, then you should be able to concentrate on the Davies System and add a few extra dollars to salve the wounds caused by your blackjack losses. (I note no casinos that are identified as offering Royal Match have blackjack rules such that basic strategy does not lose.)
A further question in my mind is will a casino deal to a player who is playing the game only for the Royal Match play? Somehow, I think a $2 blackjack wager with an occasional $50 Royal Match wager (never off the top!) would not be tolerated for long, especially if it becomes clear that the player is winning with this approach. It strikes me as a more-difficult problem to camouflage a winning Royal Match system than to camouflage a winning blackjack counting system.
On January 8, Lee Bakewell sent me written confirmation of his agreement to publication of the results of my analysis of the Davies System, along with some enhancements designed to improve the systemâs effectiveness. I immediately incorporated these enhancements and ran a new set of 10 million decks to see how beneficial the enhancements, indeed, were. The results, shown in Table 2, were quite impressive.
(NOTE: You will see that the TPS-EDGE and EST-EDGE columns for PERFECT PLAY are different in some corresponding entries between the two tables. You may wonder why this is the case. It is because they are each the result of an independent simulation and represent a different set of samples, with the resultant difference for these average values. The difference is small in all cases.)
Using the same penetration levels as before for head-to-head play, I found the efficiency of the Davies System Enhanced to be 91.73%, when compared to perfect play over these ten million decks. With $50 Royal Match wagers, this translates to an average of $3.01 per deck, or about $85.90 per hour in the fast, head-to-head game, a 23% improvement over the non-enhanced version. In the seven-player, two-round game, the average profit per deck (30 cards remaining) is about 23 cents. (Perfect play gives a profit of 25 cents per deck for this set of 10 million decks.)
This improvement comes at a price: The counting system is more complicated and would, therefore, increase the time to train for actual casino play, the concentration needed in the casino, and the difficulty in pursuing a point count playing strategy for the blackjack hand. In my opinion, only a rare few would have the discipline to accurately count for both Royal Match wagers and blackjack play, while the rest would have to rely on basic strategy for blackjack playing decisions. This would be ripe for a team approach to protect the blackjack wager while finding the lucrative Royal Match opportunities.
Below is a summary of things you should know as a result of these simulations. It shows six different playing conditions and gives the average profit per deck, profit per hour, and expectation on Royal Match wagers when called for by the Davies System. Both regular and enhanced versions are included. The columns labeled âEXPâ is the average expectation on Royal Match wagers and is calculated as the total amount won divided by the total amount wagered, expressed as a percent.
A significant observation can be made to support that the benefits of the enhanced version over the regular version lie in the higher expectations. (I understand that the Davies System now being distributed is the enhanced versions, and earlier purchasers have been updated.) Much of this comes from inhibiting wagers which would otherwise be called for. While making 23% more money, only about 80% as much was wagered. This makes it much safer from a ârisk of ruinâ point of view.
As you can see, this table does not form a smooth curve and interpolation/extrapolation might be dangerous.
What More Can We Do?
It would be interesting to see what the combination of Davies System and blackjack counting can do, with various approaches to the blackjack wager and number of hands, and with various depths of penetration. I hope to explore these questions for a future issue of Blackjack Forum. âSummary of Davies Royal Match Card Counting System Analysis
| REGULAR VERSION | ENHANCED VERSION | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | Rounds | Hands/Hr | $/Deck | $/Hour | Exp | $/Deck | $/Hour | Exp |
| 7 | 2 | 70 | $0.21 | $7.30 | 2.82% | $0.23 | $7.88 | 3.21% |
| 4 | 3 | 100 | $0.43 | $14.25 | 2.48% | $0.47 | $15.67 | 2.96% |
| 3 | 4 | 120 | $0.91 | $27.38 | 2.73% | $1.27 | $38.14 | 4.73% |
| 2 | 4 | 150 | $0.35 | $13.17 | 2.07% | $0.40 | $14.92 | 2.53% |
| 2 | 5 | 150 | $0.83 | $25.00 | 2.11% | $1.13 | $33.83 | 4.48% |
| 1 | 7 | 200 | $2.44 | $69.84 | 3.77% | $3.01 | $85.90 | 4.33% |
| 50,000,000 Decks Played | PERFECT | DAVIES |
|---|---|---|
| Per Deck Win on $50 *Bets: | $3.2380 | $2.4444 |
| Efficiency: | 75.4910% |
PERFECT PLAY
| LEFT | TPS-BETS | TPS-EDGE | EST-EDGE | LEFT | TPS-BETS | TPS-EDGE | EST-EDGE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 0 | 0.0000% | 0.0000% | 26 | 10562306 | 0.8829% | 0.9037% |
| 46 | 16832 | 0.0003% | 0.0003% | 25 | 9810734 | 1.0417% | 1.0344% |
| 45 | 91650 | 0.0025% | 0.0010% | 24 | 9619151 | 1.1746% | 1.1755% |
| 44 | 146757 | 0.0034% | 0.0023% | 23 | 11710914 | 1.3514% | 1.3520% |
| 43 | 276459 | 0.0044% | 0.0054% | 22 | 11711140 | 1.5230% | 1.5277% |
| 42 | 402526 | 0.0118% | 0.0106% | 21 | 12496058 | 1.7238% | 1.7361% |
| 41 | 865461 | 0.0180% | 0.0200% | 20 | 12418021 | 1.9801% | 1.9705% |
| 40 | 1361867 | 0.0253% | 0.0326% | 19 | 13747058 | 2.2378% | 2.2193% |
| 39 | 1735815 | 0.0510% | 0.0491% | 18 | 12883330 | 2.5094% | 2.5157% |
| 38 | 2094195 | 0.0699% | 0.0714% | 17 | 13102034 | 2.8387% | 2.8231% |
| 37 | 2851369 | 0.0975% | 0.1006% | 16 | 14695124 | 3.2548% | 3.2346% |
| 36 | 3503400 | 0.1346% | 0.1354% | 15 | 15394673 | 3.6472% | 3.6670% |
| 35 | 4083919 | 0.1816% | 0.1752% | 14 | 16479167 | 4.1245% | 4.1187% |
| 34 | 4862287 | 0.2207% | 0.2228% | 13 | 15976203 | 4.7407% | 4.7228% |
| 33 | 5710462 | 0.2607% | 0.2772% | 12 | 17587821 | 5.4030% | 5.4060% |
| 32 | 6557465 | 0.3243% | 0.3396% | 11 | 18146368 | 6.1340% | 6.1340% |
| 31 | 6710487 | 0.4235% | 0.4094% | 10 | 18710903 | 7.3941% | 7.4136% |
| 30 | 7472002 | 0.4839% | 0.4884% | 9 | 14717051 | 8.3194% | 8.3259% |
| 29 | 7813685 | 0.5783% | 0.5732% | 8 | 12944131 | 9.4726% | 9.4689% |
| 28 | 8331258 | 0.6770% | 0.6673% | 7 | 17422067 | 12.2727% | 12.2413% |
| 27 | 9032900 | 0.7909% | 0.7821% | 6 | 24435568 | 14.1606% | 14.1772% |
| LEFT | TPS-BETS | TPS-EDGE | EST-EDGE | LEFT | TPS-BETS | TPS-EDGE | EST-EDGE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 0 | 0.0000% | 0.0000% | 26 | 13590557 | 0.6797% | 0.7015% |
| 46 | 16832 | 0.0003% | 0.0003% | 25 | 14428971 | 0.8323% | 0.8385% |
| 45 | 102973 | 0.0022% | 0.0009% | 24 | 15328227 | 0.9727% | 0.9696% |
| 44 | 356620 | 0.0022% | 0.0009% | 23 | 16885566 | 1.0489% | 1.0466% |
| 43 | 718453 | -0.0006% | -0.0001% | 22 | 19641568 | 0.9908% | 0.9972% |
| 42 | 1135989 | -0.0016% | 0.0005% | 21 | 22509849 | 0.9637% | 0.9597% |
| 41 | 1607271 | 0.0019% | 0.0058% | 20 | 24362612 | 1.0763% | 1.0774% |
| 40 | 2203403 | 0.0100% | 0.0158% | 19 | 24376220 | 1.4059% | 1.4032% |
| 39 | 2784001 | 0.0227% | 0.0284% | 18 | 23855593 | 1.7579% | 1.7626% |
| 38 | 3299284 | 0.0453% | 0.0468% | 17 | 23135185 | 2.1845% | 2.1714% |
| 37 | 3771649 | 0.0669% | 0.0743% | 16 | 22761011 | 2.6146% | 2.5867% |
| 36 | 4309693 | 0.1095% | 0.1085% | 15 | 21646282 | 3.0950% | 3.1219% |
| 35 | 4777867 | 0.1503% | 0.1430% | 14 | 20644515 | 3.7246% | 3.7313% |
| 34 | 5175336 | 0.1782% | 0.1847% | 13 | 20905208 | 4.2307% | 4.2300% |
| 33 | 5509838 | 0.2141% | 0.2386% | 12 | 24082712 | 4.3297% | 4.3337% |
| 32 | 5875004 | 0.2813% | 0.3013% | 11 | 29575747 | 3.9535% | 3.9621% |
| 31 | 6411455 | 0.3723% | 0.3618% | 10 | 32428895 | 4.3252% | 4.3423% |
| 30 | 7400492 | 0.4172% | 0.4198% | 9 | 29099947 | 6.4594% | 6.4693% |
| 29 | 9021576 | 0.4726% | 0.4666% | 8 | 23998472 | 9.3691% | 9.3665% |
| 28 | 10740177 | 0.5164% | 0.5153% | 7 | 23875685 | 11.4091% | 11.3733% |
| 27 | 12300661 | 0.5910% | 0.5877% | 6 | 24018501 | 13.9370% | 13.9517% |
TABLE 2
ROYAL MATCH ANALYSIS
(ENHANCED VERSION)
| 10,000,000 Decks Played | PERFECT | DAVIES |
|---|---|---|
| Per Deck Win on $50 *Bets: | $3.2773 | $3.0065 |
| Efficiency: | 91.7349% |
| LEFT | TPS-BETS | TPS-EDGE | EST-EDGE | LEFT | TPS-BETS | TPS-EDGE | EST-EDGE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 0 | 0.0000% | 0.0000% | 26 | 2111717 | 0.9011% | 0.9037% |
| 46 | 3383 | -0.0001% | 0.0003% | 25 | 1961015 | 1.0119% | 1.0345% |
| 45 | 18353 | 0.0030% | 0.0010% | 24 | 1923584 | 1.1717% | 1.1754% |
| 44 | 29395 | 0.0007% | 0.0023% | 23 | 2342628 | 1.3226% | 1.3514% |
| 43 | 55223 | 0.0069% | 0.0054% | 22 | 2342291 | 1.5149% | 1.5271% |
| 42 | 80786 | 0.0099% | 0.0106% | 21 | 2500231 | 1.7312% | 1.7363% |
| 41 | 173071 | 0.0314% | 0.0201% | 20 | 2484415 | 1.9170% | 1.9703% |
| 40 | 272096 | 0.0311% | 0.0326% | 19 | 2748569 | 2.2354% | 2.2189% |
| 39 | 347388 | 0.0316% | 0.0490% | 18 | 2576641 | 2.5515% | 2.5140% |
| 38 | 418217 | 0.0779% | 0.0712% | 17 | 2619991 | 2.8304% | 2.8222% |
| 37 | 569621 | 0.1220% | 0.1003% | 16 | 2938812 | 3.2253% | 3.2333% |
| 36 | 700850 | 0.1308% | 0.1352% | 15 | 3077918 | 3.7214% | 3.6654% |
| 35 | 815824 | 0.1678% | 0.1753% | 14 | 3294481 | 4.0757% | 4.1162% |
| 34 | 972648 | 0.2258% | 0.2229% | 13 | 3194823 | 4.7808% | 4.7220% |
| 33 | 1141664 | 0.2774% | 0.2773% | 12 | 3516535 | 5.4100% | 5.4016% |
| 32 | 1310725 | 0.3056% | 0.3396% | 11 | 3628065 | 6.1460% | 6.1280% |
| 31 | 1341341 | 0.3993% | 0.4096% | 10 | 3740120 | 7.3129% | 7.4044% |
| 30 | 1493329 | 0.5048% | 0.4883% | 9 | 2940757 | 8.3377% | 8.3151% |
| 29 | 1560046 | 0.6066% | 0.5729% | 8 | 2585983 | 9.4554% | 9.4556% |
| 28 | 1665641 | 0.6758% | 0.6668% | 7 | 3483027 | 12.1492% | 12.2308% |
| 27 | 1805680 | 0.7901% | 0.7819% | 6 | 4887680 | 14.1385% | 14.1776% |
THE DAVIES SYSTEM
| LEFT | TPS-BETS | TPS-EDGE | EST-EDGE | LEFT | TPS-BETS | TPS-EDGE | EST-EDGE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 0 | 0.0000% | 0.0000% | 26 | 2381229 | 0.7913% | 0.8018% |
| 46 | 3383 | -0.0001% | 0.0003% | 25 | 2550639 | 0.9312% | 0.9318% |
| 45 | 20589 | 0.0019% | 0.0009% | 24 | 2735606 | 1.0888% | 1.0566% |
| 44 | 71525 | -0.0088% | 0.0009% | 23 | 2986979 | 1.1860% | 1.1759% |
| 43 | 150862 | -0.0007% | -0.0001% | 22 | 3335243 | 1.2898% | 1.2869% |
| 42 | 250891 | 0.0097% | 0.0003% | 21 | 3632284 | 1.4592% | 1.4512% |
| 41 | 369402 | 0.0194% | 0.0044% | 20 | 3737665 | 1.6570% | 1.7130% |
| 40 | 502906 | 0.0165% | 0.0138% | 19 | 3604193 | 2.0733% | 2.0626% |
| 39 | 622449 | 0.0090% | 0.0279% | 18 | 3397649 | 2.4518% | 2.4193% |
| 38 | 719314 | 0.0598% | 0.0488% | 17 | 3196603 | 2.7735% | 2.7796% |
| 37 | 802202 | 0.0901% | 0.0787% | 16 | 3083429 | 3.1543% | 3.1544% |
| 36 | 892655 | 0.1192% | 0.1149% | 15 | 3042799 | 3.6075% | 3.5434% |
| 35 | 964436 | 0.1332% | 0.1522% | 14 | 3212390 | 3.7979% | 3.8684% |
| 34 | 1024690 | 0.2054% | 0.1959% | 13 | 3517161 | 4.3052% | 4.3008% |
| 33 | 1075104 | 0.2500% | 0.2506% | 12 | 3787099 | 5.0876% | 5.0407% |
| 32 | 1137433 | 0.3071% | 0.3124% | 11 | 3758762 | 6.0972% | 6.0692% |
| 31 | 1232305 | 0.3604% | 0.3728% | 10 | 3447739 | 7.1186% | 7.2093% |
| 30 | 1402885 | 0.4500% | 0.4349% | 9 | 2931329 | 8.3254% | 8.3024% |
| 29 | 1669190 | 0.5104% | 0.4992% | 8 | 2498463 | 9.3508% | 9.3534% |
| 28 | 1939498 | 0.5979% | 0.5751% | 7 | 1994831 | 10.1246% | 10.1801% |
| 27 | 2178521 | 0.6854% | 0.6738% | 6 | 1334755 | 10.4211% | 10.4522% |
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I know that I am not supposed to play 6-5 blackjack, but should I find myself in this situation is there any time that it would be advantageous to double down on a blackjack instead of taking the 6-5 payout?
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Using the Hi-Lo count, I show that against a dealer 5 and blackjacks pay 6 to 5, and if the true count is +18 or greater, then you should double on a blackjack. Not that you asked, but if a blackjack paid 3 to 2, then you would need to get to a count of +27 to double. These numbers should be considered as estimates. Against any other dealer up card, the count would need to be even greater for doubling to be the right play. This question was raised and discussed in my forum at Wizard of Vegas .
I think casinos that shuffle the cards early in a good count are cheating. I'm going to file a formal complaint with the Gaming Control Board against the Stratosphere for doing this to me. No particular question, I just wanted to vent.
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Shuffling early, as a defense against card counters, has been part of game for 50 years. I would say that if casinos were using computers to tell the dealer when the count was good, as a hint to shuffle, that would be cheating. I also think if the dealer counted himself and shuffled early on recreational players, that too would be cheating. However, if the dealer is doing it when you raise your bets, well, that is just the way the game is played. If you won your case with Gaming, the casinos would ruin the game for counters, like they did in Atlantic City over the Ken Uston lawsuit. The next thing you would see is every game on a continuous shuffler. Both sides would be better off to leave the cat and mouse game as it is.
This question is raised and discussed in my forum at Wizard of Vegas .
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Discussion in ' Skilled Play - Card Counting, Advanced Strategies ' started by meteomonk , Nov 29, 2008 .
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Last night while playing at my local casinos 6 deck shoe game. I began to think about the royal match side bet, something I hadn't put much thought into the dozens of other trips I have made to the casino. As a girl placed in the side bet spot and got paid 0!! I have been able to find little about systems for royal match side bet advantage play. but as far as I can tell this would be one of the better odds....6 decks (apparently for matching suits more decks is better?), Royal suit match pays 50:1, and any other match will pay 2:1. I'm going to investigate tonight about any other payouts and if royal match includes aces or tens. The only article I could find about advantage play for this bet was here http://www.blackjackforumonline.com/content/royalmatch.htm its called the davies system, he explains everything but the system!!! does anyone have access to this system, or any other strategys such as simply making this bet a certain count (I use KO), or would counting suits have to come into play? Thank you for your input! this is my first forum post, i'm at around 100 hours counting, quite excited. meteomonk , Nov 29, 2008 #1meteomonk Member
Okay, I thought I would contribute some newly discovered research and more questions.... In a 1993 book by stanford wong called blackjack secrets he claimed that a royal match side bet where a king-Queen combination paid 10:1 and any other match paid 3:1 the player had a 1.1% advantage on a 6-Deck game, and the house has a 3.8% advantage on single deck play. I have read elsewhere that even on 6-deck games the house maintains over a 2% advantage on this particular side bet, is the trusty stanford wong simply pulling his answers out of thin air or what??? I can't imagine my casino would offer a side bet giving the player the advantage. This also begs the question Is it more important on this side bet that all other matches pay 3:1 over 2:1 rather than royal matches paying 50:1 over 10:1 is this large multiplier simply a gimmick??? I am discovered a post around page 100 on this forum where somebody suggest counting blacks as +1 and reds as -1, and to determine a key count when it gets negative or positive. So the scheme (atleast as far as I've worked it so far) would be to bet when the Suit count becomes quite large or small, and perhaps when the Suit count is special and when the regular running count is high. This will require keeping 2 numbers in mind, which is slow going at first but should get easier. Perhaps eventually only a suit, king, and queen count would be required. Anway Sorry about the long post, any thoughts??? Is this all a hopeless scheme?? meteomonk , Nov 29, 2008 #2FLASH1296 Well-Known Member
According to 'The Big Book of Blackjack' by Arnold Snyder, this side bet cannot be beaten except in Single Deck games, with the proviso taht the payoffs must be 3-1 for 2 suited cards and 10-1 for a Suited Ace-King; and that if those odds are 3-2 and 25-1 the game is unbeatable. Snyder devotes six pages (pp. 199-204) to this side bet in 'The Big Book of Blackjack' Incidentally, this subject not withstanding , the book is highly recommended. FLASH1296 , Nov 29, 2008 #3meteomonk Member
Ahh Thank you! These odds however are 2:1 and 50:1 rather than 3:2 and 25:1, perhaps he didn't factor in for this pay format? or perhaps wishful thinking on my part. Everywhere I have read has said that your odds are significantly better in more decks per shoe, perhaps it is easier to get an advantage counting single deck? I wonder when he says beatable if he is referencing counting both suits and running count, then creating a royal match bet spread. Thanks for the book reference! I am very curious what is has to say on those six pages.. but what did you mean incidentally the subject is not withstanding? meteomonk , Nov 29, 2008 #4FLASH1296 Well-Known Member
'The Wizard of Odds' on the Royal Match side bet. I trust Arnold Snyder, but in a case like this I would check with Michael Shakleford A.K.A. - 'The Wizard of Odds' - A HIGHLY respected casino consultant-gambler-mathematician. Go To: http://wizardofodds.com/blackjack/appendix8.html#royalmatch p.s. I must apologize for the archaic language. When I said 'Incidentally, this subject not withstanding, the book is highly recommended.' that is an old-fashioned way of saying that with the subject of this side-bet completely aside, the book is (otherwise still) recommended. Last edited: Nov 29, 2008 FLASH1296 , Nov 29, 2008 #5ortango Well-Known Member
However, be careful. The only time I've been backed off was because of this dang side bet. I hit 3 out of 4 hands in a row, including the 25 to 1. Shift manager came down and took my bet out of the circle. ortango , Nov 30, 2008 #6zengrifter Banned
meteomonk said: â I have been able to find little about systems for royal match side bet advantage play. but as far as I can tell this would be one of the better odds....6 decks (apparently for matching suits more decks is better?), Royal suit match pays 50:1, and any other match will pay 2:1. I'm going to investigate tonight about any other payouts and if royal match includes aces or tens.Click to expand... This is not the easy one to beat - and tghe easy one is not easy. zg zengrifter , Nov 30, 2008 #7meteomonk Member
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Shufflemaster is one of the most common video blackjack machines. It seats five players and has two monitors. One displays the dealer and its hand, while the other shows the cards. These machines have been slowly phased out in Las Vegas , but are still common in other markets.
The most distinguishing feature of Shufflemaster video blackjack machines is the dealers. There is a rotation of female dealers dressed in skimpy outfits including lingerie and swimsuits. The backdrop is either a beach or casino. Early versions of this game included two male dealers that disappeared in newer releases. This may be due to the fact that the female dealers are better at drawing male players.
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SHFL machines offer several variations. Casinos may choose between a six-deck or single deck game . The six-deck game reshuffles after two-thirds of the shoe has been dealt. The game does not disclose the reshuffle point so counting is impossible. The single deck version reshuffles after each hand. Some casinos set single deck games to a 6-5 payout on natural blackjacks.
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It depends where you play. In PA every player has their own shoe, but elsewhere its shared. More info here: http://wizardofodds.com/ask-the-wizard/193/
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