nick777 wrote:
just admit that you don’t know how to figure out the correct odds for 2 handed play, if you do, put em up, don’t give me this roughly, approximately stuff, put up the exact odds,
Of course I know how to compute the exact odds. For our purposes, it is a waste of time and effort to carry out to many decimal places, as there is a large difference in expected return between standing and splitting. When playing with multiple hands, there is a very slight difference in numbers from a single hand due to cards being missing from the deck that were played in the other hand. This difference is insignificant for our purposes, as we have never discussed numbers to enough decimal places for it to have an influence.
Of course I know how to compute the exact odds. For our purposes, it is a waste of time and effort to carry out to many decimal places, as there is a large difference in expected return between standing and splitting. When playing with multiple hands, there is a very slight difference in numbers from a single hand due to cards being missing from the deck that were played in the other hand. This difference is insignificant for our purposes, as we have never discussed numbers to enough decimal places for it to have an influence.
nick777 wrote:
you repeat in saying that your return will be the same whether you have 2 hands drawing on a 10 vs the dealers 6, or 4 hands with a 10 drawing vs the dealers 6, how is this possible, you have 4 favourites vs 1 underdog in one situation, it’s not 4 favourites vs 1 underdog in 4 seperate 1 on 1 situations.
If it were an elimination fight where one fighter is fighting 4 other fighters, each of whom would be favoured in a 1 on 1 situation vs him, how many times would the one underdog fighter be able to beat all 4, 3, 2, or 1 of them.
Obviously the underdog fighter has a much better chance vs only 2 fighters at once, opposed to 4, yet you fail to realize that..
Did you even read my post? LOSSES COUNT TOWARDS YOUR EXPECTED RETURN EVEN WHEN YOU DON’T LOSE ALL HANDS SIMULTANEOUSLY. In your fighter example, what if 1 fighter wins and 3 fighters lose? And what if you win 1 hand and lose 3 hands? You do realize that you lose money in this situation, don’t you? Or is this another one of your misunderstandings of basic blackjack rules?