The result was a player disadvantage of 2.72 percent with all the Aces gone—2.51 percent worse than the overall 0.21 percent casino edge. Although this was a huge shift in favor of the casino, it was actually great news.
Clever to take an extreme case and prove huge disadvantage to player to demonstrate that varying bets can theoretically tip odds in player. Trick was definitely to devise a strategy that would be memorable enough /and/ cover enough cases they he’d be likely to encounter them.
