The text below is an example of a report file created by SBA. SBA creates the report file as soon as the simulation is finished.
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* S T A T I S T I C A L B L A C K J A C K A N A L Y Z E R *
* Version 5.0.3, 1995-2000 *
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Simulation started on (MM/DD/YY): 04-06-2000 at 13:39:44
Simulation finished on (MM/DD/YY): 04-06-2000 at 13:59:28
Random seed = 1234567890
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* R U L E S & C O N D I T I O N S *
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6 decks
Shufflepoint 260 cards, (83.33% penetration)
Face up game
2 players including the counter
Counter's position: seat 2
System used is HI-OPT I with ace side count and with playing table Hi-Opt I
Ace side count is used for betting purposes
SBA floors when calculating the true count
Remaining decks estimated exactly for true count conversion
Over/Under 13 rule is available
The O/U bet is 2 halves of the original bet
American rules - hole card game
Early surrender is allowed
Dealer stands on all 17
Doubling is allowed on any two cards
Doubling is allowed after splitting
Hand can be split 3 times, up to 4 hands
No resplit of aces
Only one card to split aces
Different tens can be split
Insurance is 1 half of a bet
Predefined variables:
INSURANCE = 3 Buy insurance if true count >= INSURANCE
OVERINDEX = 3 Take the OVER 13 side bet if true count >= OVERINDEX
UNDERINDEX = -4 Take the UNDER 13 bet if true count <= UNDERINDEX H7710="99" Hit 7,7 versus dealer's 10 if true count < H7710 SU8810="-2" Surrender 8,8 vs. dealer's 10 if true count>= SU8810
SU889 = 99 Surrender 8,8 vs. dealer's 9 if true count >= SU889
SU7710 = -2 Surrender 7,7 vs. dealer's 10 if true count >= SU7710
ODD RULES AND/OR SPECIAL BONUSES:
Winning Suited 777 pays 5:2
Winning 777 pays 3:2
Ace/Jack of spades pays 4:2
Leaving on adjusted counts: -5.0
Betting units are: 1.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 5.0, 8.0, 8.0
For corresponding AC: -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Num. of hands played: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Player's bankroll is 100
Aim bankroll is 200
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* S I M U L A T I O N R E S U L T S *
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COUNT STATISTICS:
TC PERCEN AC PERCEN ST. ERR. ADVANT ST. ERR. SDROUND ACTION
-6 0.4379 -6.00 0.00000 0.000000 0.000 0.0000 0.0000 1.0000
-5 1.2860 -5.00 1.30611 0.001135 -5.948 0.1325 1.5148 1.2608
-4 3.4117 -4.00 4.51875 0.002077 -3.223 0.0653 1.3885 1.1403
-3 6.8317 -3.00 7.11865 0.002571 -1.164 0.0452 1.2053 1.1639
-2 13.0924 -2.00 13.21271 0.003386 -0.494 0.0312 1.1358 1.1594
-1 20.9824 -1.00 23.70164 0.004253 0.052 0.0231 1.1240 1.1478
0 30.1946 0.00 25.81083 0.004376 0.549 0.0221 1.1222 1.1463
1 10.7657 1.00 10.62857 0.003082 1.526 0.0287 1.1339 1.1510
2 5.5933 2.00 5.63259 0.002306 2.769 0.0414 1.1923 1.1548
3 3.0897 3.00 3.21268 0.001763 3.695 0.0609 1.3238 1.1472
4 1.8220 4.00 1.97038 0.001390 4.365 0.0834 1.4192 1.1585
5 1.0406 5.00 1.15254 0.001067 5.327 0.1120 1.4587 1.2040
6 0.6214 6.00 0.71162 0.000841 6.681 0.1440 1.4730 1.2811
7 0.3544 7.00 0.41549 0.000643 9.051 0.1892 1.4789 1.4494
8 0.2146 8.00 0.24534 0.000495 10.717 0.2462 1.4787 1.8476
9 0.1179 9.00 0.16563 0.000407 12.625 0.2995 1.4781 2.7220
10 0.1437 10.00 0.19645 0.000443 16.445 0.2734 1.4693 2.2115
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MAIN STATISTICS:
Initial bet advantage: 2.88267%, St. Err. 0.019516%
Advantage per total bets: 1.87743%
Estim. payoff per 100,000 rounds played is 7547.54, with estim. std. 1548.37
Average st. dev. per round: 4.89639
Av. std. per round per unit: 2.06897
Average bet per round: 2.61825
Average bet total: 4.01693
Surplus bank: 438797.5
Insurance contribution: 0.11153%
Insurance contrib. to ATB: 0.05519%
Over contribution: 0.66557%
Over contribution to ATB: -0.01241%
Under contribution: -0.03290%
Under contribution to ATB: -0.04608%
Number of won sessions: 142610
Number of lost sessions: 71582
Total number of sessions: 214192
Percentage of won sessions: 66.5805%, St. Err. 0.10192%
Number of shoes played: 3490375
Number of dropouts: 901515
Percentage of dropouts: 25.8286%, St. Err. 0.02343%
Number of rounds played: 100000013
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ADDITIONAL STATISTICS:
AC BLJACK PUSH HDOUBL SDOUBL SPLIT SURREN INSUR INSADV ACDIST
-5 1.423 3.548 2.960 0.434 0.964 1.970 0.000 0.000 1.615
-4 1.973 4.514 4.082 0.627 1.263 2.979 0.000 38.462 4.693
-3 3.256 6.837 6.605 1.071 1.971 5.565 0.001 18.605 5.656
-2 4.215 8.250 8.162 1.502 2.402 7.973 0.003 7.692 9.429
-1 4.598 8.397 8.379 1.709 2.450 9.685 0.007 8.830 16.653
0 4.813 8.365 8.313 1.789 2.441 10.387 0.029 6.011 18.120
1 4.917 8.113 8.081 1.976 2.377 10.774 0.319 6.086 15.259
2 4.288 6.740 6.662 1.761 2.031 9.707 1.235 4.892 9.155
3 3.138 4.736 4.612 1.302 1.588 7.473 2.236 4.390 6.753
4 2.653 3.849 3.694 1.104 1.585 6.573 2.781 4.984 4.892
5 2.603 3.616 3.422 1.066 1.851 6.523 3.139 6.735 3.047
InsTC INSUR INSADV ST. ERR.
3 7.546 2.263 0.102
4 7.644 5.806 0.131
5 7.656 7.942 0.171
TC OVER ADV ST. ERR. UND.ADV ST. ERR.
-5 0.000 0.000 -0.117 0.066
-4 0.000 0.000 -3.333 0.041
-3 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
-2 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
-1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
2 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
3 -0.368 0.030 0.000 0.000
4 1.544 0.039 0.000 0.000
5 3.298 0.052 0.000 0.000
Percentage of blackjack: 4.900%
Percentage of pushing: 8.444%
Percentage of hard doubling: 8.278%
Percentage of soft doubling: 1.856%
Percentage of splitting: 2.717%
Percentage of surrender: 10.493%
Percentage of insurance: 0.990%
Insurance advantage: 7.568%
Percentage of Over: 11.870%
Over advantage: 1.837%
Percentage of Under: 4.133%
Under advantage: -1.674%
AC Corr.Coef.
-5 N/A
-4 N/A
-3 N/A
-2 N/A
-1 N/A
0 N/A
1 0.3587
2 0.3257
3 0.2642
4 0.2327
5 0.2261
D E A L E R'S S T A T I S T I C S
Up card 17 18 19 20 21 BJ Bust
2 13.9461 13.4182 12.9979 12.3922 11.8321 -- 35.4135
3 13.4321 13.0151 12.4947 12.0784 11.4829 -- 37.4968
4 13.0314 12.4023 12.1106 11.6153 11.1743 -- 39.6661
5 12.1941 12.2214 11.7078 11.1505 10.7705 -- 41.9557
6 16.5793 10.6214 10.6320 10.1229 9.7158 -- 42.3286
7 36.9644 13.7862 7.8383 7.8410 7.3667 -- 26.2033
8 12.8886 36.0099 12.8816 6.9160 6.9387 -- 24.3652
9 12.0253 11.7176 35.2460 12.0373 6.0722 -- 22.9015
10 11.1940 11.1610 11.1696 34.0237 3.4740 7.7366 21.2412
ace 12.9848 13.0886 13.0300 13.0820 5.3523 30.9166 11.5459
How many cards the dealer ends up with (percentage distribution):
Cards: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Perc.: 38.6965 41.3555 16.3566 3.1960 0.3672 0.0270 0.0012 0.0000 0.0000
Dealer's additional hits (percentage):
Card: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ace
Perc.: 7.6527 7.6156 7.6215 7.6269 7.6380 7.7006 7.7026 7.7064 31.0018 7.7340