MIT’s IBM 704 had produced the basic results that gave me the Five-Count System, most of the Ten-Count System, and the ideas for what I called the ultimate strategy. The latter assigned a point value to every card, proportional to its effect on the game, with Aces each counted as −9, 2s counted as +5, and so on, down to Tens counted as −
What’s the edge when applying this counting + optimal (yet to be explained) betting strategy—presumably using Kelly.
