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Learning MBS is a slow, tedious process, but well worth the effort. Try to be patient with yourself. The following exercises were specially designed for your MBS practice. In each case, the relevant Hi-Low TC is listed. Always assume that you are playing shoe games that follow the rules normally found, but where surrender is [...]

The table below indicates when to surrender Since no casinos offer “early” surrender any more, surrender always means “late” surrender nowadays. When offered, TC surrendering nearly always takes precedence over every other possible play. More and more casinos are allowing the surrender option, since it is usually an extra moneymaker for them when used by [...]

For those very serious readers who may be interested, however, a fairly extensive MBS-4 table is included below. It was compiled by collating information from a wide range of reputable sources. Where discrepancies between various tables occured, the integers finally chosen were “averaged” to arrive at the compromised figures shown on the chart. A conscious [...]

The following table (MBS-3) is probably enough MBS for most players to learn. It shows all the correct playing indices for TC’s that range from 5 to +5, and this represents over 95% of all TC’s normally encountered in any six-deck shoe game.

Modified Basic Strategy Table 3 (MBS-3)
For Hi-Low TC’s from [...]

If you expand the TC range downward to include the 3 integers, as shown on the next table (MBS-2), then you will have at your disposal the perfect playing strategies for over 86% of the TC’s that normally occur within any six-deck shoe game. As mentioned in chapter 4, the TC stays within [...]