Card Eating Partner

How does card eating affect others?

OK, let's try to turn this around. If someone takes the good cards it hurts us. So let's get somebody to take the bad cards instead. Here we have two players at the table. But one is our partner. The partner bets the table minimum, but plays two hands at true counts of zero and below and one hand at positive counts. The partner eats bad cards while betting the minimum.

This chart summarizes results from the previous two pages and this page. First, the top of the red area displays the win rates by true count for a normal Hi-Lo player. The top of the green area are the win rates when a backcounter interferes. So, the red area shows the resulting loss. The green area shows the further loss by a multi-hand player interfering with our play. But the cyan area shows the gain from using a partner to eat bad cards.

What are the overall effects?

Here we summarize the overall effects for these three pages. Red shows the normal advantage for a Basic Strategy player and a Hi-Lo card counter. Overall advantages are also displayed for the situations defined on these pages. I did not bother with the basic strategy effect of a card eater as this really isn't a realistic situation.

Sim details

• Six decks, 5/6 penetration, S17, DAS, LS, 2 players, Basic Strategy and Hi-Lo, Sweet 16 & Fab 4 indexes
• Six decks, 5/6 penetration, S17, DAS, LS, 2 players, Basic Strategy card eater and Hi-Lo, Sweet 16 & Fab 4 indexes
• Additional sims from the previous two pages
• Five billion rounds each