What about Zen?
In the second chart we look at the same process, but using the 1998 Zen strategy. Using this strategy we now see a green area. In fact, at 4.5/6 deck penetration in the middle of the chart; the gain from using half-counts is 9.3%. What happened?
The Hi-Lo strategy calculates true counts by dividing by the number of remaining decks. The 1998 Zen strategy calculates true counts by dividing by the remaining quarter decks. This is a much higher divisor; so you end up with a much smaller range of true counts. With a smaller range of counts, there is less resolution and this means less accuracy. You can gain back most of this accuracy by betting according to half-counts instead of integer counts when using Zen.
Note: unbalanced strategies like REKO, KISS and Red 7 have a very large range of counts and do not need betting by half-counts.
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· Six decks, S17, DAS, LS 1 player, Hi-Lo, truncate, Sweet 16 & Fab 4 indexes, half-deck resolution, 26-130 cards penetration
· Six decks, S17, DAS, LS 1 player, 1998 Zen, floor, Sweet 16 & Fab 4 indexes, half-deck resolution, 26-130 cards penetration
· Optimal betting by full and half counts
· Two billion rounds each
© 2009 Norman Wattenberger
