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[HunchBacShrimp]

Played three shoes the other night. Not my normal game. This particular table only had one shoe, and was a hand shuffle game. I don't often play a hand shuffled game.

First shoe in progress when I arrive at hand 34. No tie yet. Wow, ok, that's not too common but 34 hands isn't much of a stretch. It was another 23 decisions before the first and only tie of an 8 deck shoe. There were 24 more hands dealt before that shoe ended.

Same deck of 8 hand shuffled. Some recognize and are comfortable with continuous shoes being a fair representation of random, others feel each shoe is a separate entity of random. Either way is fine but the second shoe went to hand 31 before it tied for the first time. (Ended up being 5 more ties in that shoe.) Put them together and you have 1 tie in shoe one at hand 57, and then another 55 decisions until you reach hand 31 in the second shoe for a total of 2 ties in 112 decisions.

Then in shoe three Tie didn't show until hand 54.

Food for thought for anyone that considers running a progression on the tie bet.

I'm willing to type the shoes out later if anyone is interested. Presently I'm headed to the casino.

I'll be back later, I've certainly got more to say.

HBS

[ADulay]

I'm willing to type the shoes out later if anyone is interested. Presently I'm headed to the casino.

I'll be back later, I've certainly got more to say.

HBS

HBS,

  If you have the time I'd like to see the shoes.  Not for the ties, but for the live performance to test against the currently running "condensed" VDW play.

  Thanks.

  AD