Deriving the Kelly Criterion to Maximise Profits
https://obrhubr.org/kelly-criterionSpoiler: It's almost always 3-4x the value of a royal flush. So you needed $12-16k if you were playing a $1-per-coin game with a 1% edge at a pretty good clip.
And what do you earn with perfect play in that situation? The princely sum of around $30 an hour.
The article mentions fractional Kelly is a hedge. But what fraction is optimal to use? That is also unknowable.
Finance folks, correct me if I’m wrong, but the Kelly Criterion is rarely used in financial models but is more a rule of thumb that says roughly if you have x $ and probability p, in a perfect world you should only bet y amount. But in reality y cannot be determined accurately because p is always changing or hard to measure.
https://github.com/obrhubr/kelly-criterion-blackjack/blob/ma...
I think it shows that Blackjack is not even theoretically winnable over time if you have to pay for information on the count in the form on minimum bets. The ideal case it that you bet $0.49 for every $1,000 in your investment pool when the count is extraordinarily high.
Even if you hack the casino's cameras so you know the count without having to be at the table, your reward is a growth rate that is very low per hand.