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Originally Posted by ShadowRoll
When I was in college, I spent one summer "down the shore" (Atlantic City) with the intention of being a card counter. In preparation, I bought a decent book on the subject, taught myself how to count and practiced with fair regularity. Just before I moved down, they changed the game there rather significantly, increasing the number of decks in the shoe and changing some rules, the most significant of which was eliminating "early drop," without which the player lost a large edge he previously enjoyed...
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The rule was "early surrender", and it was a nice rule indeed. That rule also required learning some special variations on routine play. But if you played correctly, the rule was worth an extra 0.7% compared to rules without surrender*. That might not sound by much, but it's about like hearing that a track is going to add to the pool instead of having a takeout. You actually had a small edge in AC even without card counting, assuming you knew basic strategy.
--Dunbar
* It was worth 0.7% to a non-counter. To a counter it was worth a good bit more.