Go to Practice Card Counting

When you click on "BJClock" on the top of the Systems 101 screen, you will be launched into the above applet that will help you roughly estimate the number of hands you are likely playing, given the game conditions and your style of play, for Six deck and Eight Deck games. Estimating your "Hands-Per-Hour" is very important if you want to get reasonable estimates of your expected Win Rate.

As with "Practice Card Counting", BJClock will use the Count System you have selected on the Systems 101 screen. Note: If you select a non-True Counted System, verify the 6 and 8 deck IRCs, which will default to ( - #-of-decks * pivot).

To use BJClock, do the following:

Basic Settings:

• Select 6 or 8 Decks in Play
• Select Penetration
• Select the number of additional players at your table
• Select the number of seconds spent dealing to yourself and the dealer (12 default)
• Select the average number of cards dealt per player, per round (2.7 default)
• Select the number of seconds spent dealing to each additional player (6 default)
• Select number of seconds to shuffle a 6 or 8 deck shoe (100 and 140 defaults)
• Decide to enforce Shuffle time, or not
• Decide whether or not to spend time, and how much and how frequently, on Chip Buy-Ins (you and other players)

Style of Play:

Note: You can use the Walk-Away setting with "Wong" style, to stop back-counting and leave to find another table, but if you are already in a shoe, you will not Walk. You can also turn-off the Walk-Away setting with the Classic Wong style, which will mean that once in a shoe, you will not leave, but you will sit out hands based on the TC/RC you set for not placing a bet.

This section is where you can set, by depth of cards already dealt, the TC/RC at which you are either going to Walk Away from the table you have been Back-Counting, or Get-Up-And-Leave if you have Wonged In, and are playing the style where you depart if it gets bad ("Classic Wong").

• Select Cards-Dealt depths,
• Select the TC/RC at and below which you will leave
• Decide whether to enforce a time penalty, and how much, to find a new table

 After setting all of the above, click on Shuffle, and then either click Deal-A-Round, to step through manually, or Auto Do 50, 100, or 500 rounds. It should not take all that many rounds for your Rounds-Played-Per-Hour value to settle in.

The BJClock screen will show you several interesting statistics, including:

• The "wall clock" time that has gone by
• The time it took to play 100 rounds
• The number of rounds you have played and the number of rounds you have observed
• The number of shoe you have played and the number of shoes you have observed
• Once in a shoe, the average number of rounds you have played in that shoe