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re ce OB hitps:/to00ks.google.commy/boo ~Ow t:noe Google | casio ve penzon cw Books aa BmExR oe ‘Ade to my library * rite review a7 Cb) Le “Rule Variations” tab, leave all insurance options unchecked. Under “Surrender Options,” tick “Late Surrender” and “Surrender after double.” Under “Split Options,” tick the selections that correspond to your rules, leaving the last three unchecked Under “Double Down options.” tick "Double down ‘on any no. of cards,” unless you are playing in Malaysia or South Australia, If you are allowed to redouble, click “ReDouble.” Under the “Unusual Games” tab, under “Win/play variations,” tick Player 21 always wins.” In North America, tick ‘Except Dealer BJ.” Under “Unusual Games,” tick “Spanish 21.” Under the “Play Variations” tab, under “Dealer card handling," tick “DD dealt face up.” In North America, tick “Dealer peeks on 10” and “Dealer pecks on Ace.” Under the “Bonuses” tab, tick “Player BJ always wins.” Under the “True Count” tab, under “True Count Resolution” and “Last Deck Resolution,” click on “Exact” for both Make sure that “Round” is selected for “TC Division” and “Deck Est.” Do not tick any of the bonuses since they were preset for you when you ticked “Spanish 21” in “Unusual Games.” (You can the view the Spanish 21 bonuses by selecting “Options,” then “Custom Bonuses,” then “Spanish21 Bonuses.” Note that these bonuses are in addition to the 1 to 1 payout ‘on a win, ie, the payout on a five-card twenty-one is 3:2 = 1:1 + 1:2.) Under the “Environment” tab, check “Display Error Rate.” Click “OK" to finish ‘The system is ready for you to play Spanish 21 ‘Next we will set up ihe system for the practi drills, First you will need t enter your basic strategy chart line by line into the sysiem, which gives you yet another opportunity to memorize ‘your chart, In the menu along the top, click on “Tools,” then “CVDrills.” This will open the Blackjack Testing Machine. Click on “Strategies” at the top right, then “Define/Edit Strategy,” then “Create a New Playing Strategy.” In the window ‘on the right-hand side, click on the “+ sign to the left of “Michael Shackleford.” Undemeath, click ‘on “Spanish2I.” Enter the name of your strategy into the text box on the left. You can call it anything you wish, but make sure you include ‘Basic Strategy” in the name, ez, “Basic Strategy Sydney Pontoon.” You may have spaces in the ame. Click on “Init,” then “Advanced.” To the right, under “Affecting Options,” you will see several selections. If you play an HI7 game, with or without redoubling, with or without a hole card, tick the “Dealer hits soft 17” checkbox. If you play the S17 game, you will not need to tick a box. Go to the menu along the top of the window and click on “Tables.” You will notice that there are ‘wo columns, one titled “Full Tables” and another titled “Modification Tables.” Under “Full Tables, there are two columns, one for “Stand soft 17” and ‘one for “Hit soft 17.” Choose either “Stand soft 17° or “Hit soft 17,” depending on your game. Regardless of your rules, ignore the "Modification Tables” column. Click on each of the red squares in your column, ‘one by one. Each red square corresponds to a table that you will need to amend. Compare a printout of your basic strategy chart fo the chart given and ‘make all the necessary corrections. To do this, right, click on the cell in question and choose the correct, play from the options given. For conditional plays, select “Special Conditions >," and choose the conditional play that you require, Note that CVBJ uses Michael Shackleford’s notation, which is slightly different from mine, and is shown in Table 3.10, Pontoon players must ensure that every cell fof the soft-double table is red for “no double down” and every cell of the surrender table is green for “play.” Once you've completed all the tables, click “OK” at the bottom, In the menu that runs along, the top of the window, click on “Counts.” Fill in the tables according to Tables 3.11 and 3.12. Above the tables, you will see four radio buttons under the heading “True Count Divisor:” Click the first choice, which is the radio button to the left of “Full, decks remaining.” This is done so the system will be ready for you when you staet card counting When the tables are complete, click “Exit,” which ble 3.10_6-7-8 hand netation eVBJ Notation My Notation * (astorsk) (perio or full stop) * (apostrophe) (colon) ™ (quctaton mark) 3 (semicolon)

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