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lolz0r:
Hi.

I was interested in calculating the house advantage of the casino in various games and was wondering how one would find this out for blackjack, with the rules, dealer has to stand on soft 17 and no insurance and blackjack paying 3 to 2.

Edit: assuming one played with perfect basic strategy and did not count cards

zzdfa:
1) make a simulation
or
2) for each possible hand the dealer can get, find the prob. of the dealer getting that hand and find the probability that the player will beat it using basic strategy (massive markov chain)

i'd probably just do 1), 2) looks boring

why do you want to do this anyway? there's tons of work already done on this (see wikipedia) and it seems like a tedious exercise

shinny:
Guys stay on topic please (spam was deleted).


--- Quote from: lolz0r on August 13, 2009, 09:46:17 pm ---assuming one played with perfect basic strategy

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Perhaps define what this is? Might be best to just define a minimum number on which to stand on.

zzdfa:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack#Basic_strategy

shinny:

--- Quote from: zzdfa on August 13, 2009, 10:00:07 pm ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack#Basic_strategy

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Oh sorry, didn't know it was a formally defined thing.

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