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Best Count System for Single Deck Games
This article compares the performance of various count counting systems. Their performance is compared against perfect strategy. Perfect strategy keeps track of every single card and always makes the best decision based on cards remaining. Perfect strategy is assigned a score of 100 and other strategies have a score relative to the perfect strategy.
Comparison is broken into four categories; Overall, Betting, Playing and Insurance strategies.
| Strategy |
A |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
| Hi-Lo |
-1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
-1 |
| Hi-Lo Opt I |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
-1 |
| Hi-Lo Opt II |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
-2 |
| Canfield Expert |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
-1 |
-1 |
| Canfield Master |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
-1 |
-2 |
| Omega II |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
-1 |
-2 |
| Revere Advanced Plus Minus |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
-1 |
-1 |
| Uston Advanced Plus Minus |
-1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
-1 |
| Uston Advanced Point Count |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
-1 |
-3 |
| Zen Count |
-1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
-2 |
| Revere Point Count |
-2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
-2 |
Overall
The following chart shows the overall performance of different count systems using betting, playing and insurance strategies. All count systems use a bet spread of 1-4.
| Perfect |
 |
100% |
|
| Zen Count |
|
70% |
|
| Canfield Master |
|
70% |
|
| HiLo Opt II |
|
69% |
|
| Uston APC |
|
68% |
|
| HiLo Opt I |
|
67% |
|
| Revere Adv Plus Minus |
|
66% |
|
| Canfield Expert |
|
66% |
|
| Revere Point Count |
|
66% |
|
| Uston Adv Plus Minus |
|
66% |
|
| Hi lo |
|
66% |
|
Betting Performance
This section compares the betting performance of various strategies. The following chart used Basic Strategy and no insurance and used the count system for only betting.
| Perfect |
|
100% |
|
| Hi Lo |
|
95% |
|
| Zen Count |
|
94% |
|
| Revere Point Count |
|
94% |
|
| Uston Adv Plus Minus |
|
92% |
|
| HiLo Opt II |
|
90% |
|
| Canfield Master |
|
90% |
|
| Revere Adv Plus Minus |
|
89% |
|
| HiLo Opt I |
|
88% |
|
| Uston APC |
|
88% |
|
| Canfield Expert |
|
86% |
|
Playing Performance
This section compares the performance of various strategies for playing. The following chart used flat betting and no insurance and used the count system for only play variation.
| Perfect |
|
100% |
|
| Canfield Master |
|
57% |
|
| HiLo Opt II |
|
55% |
|
| Canfield Expert |
|
54% |
|
| Revere Adv Plus Minus |
|
54% |
|
| Uston APC |
|
53% |
|
| Zen Count |
|
53% |
|
| Hi-Lo Opt I |
|
52% |
|
| Uston Adv Plus Minus |
|
47% |
|
| Revere Point Count |
|
45% |
|
| Hi Lo |
|
44% |
|
Insurance Performance
This section compares the performance of various strategies for insurance. The following chart shows the improvement in earnings when using a particular insurance strategy.
| Perfect |
|
100% |
|
| Uston APC |
|
87% |
|
| HiLo Opt II |
|
87% |
|
| Zen Count |
|
82% |
|
| Canfield Master |
|
81% |
|
| HiLo Opt I |
|
80% |
|
| Revere Point Count |
|
73% |
|
| Uston Adv Plus Minus |
|
71% |
|
| Hi Lo |
|
71% |
|
| Canfield Expert |
|
68% |
|
| Revere Adv Plus Minus |
|
68% |
|
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