8D, H17,DOA,DAS,No RSA 1/2D Cut Off

I went to a local casino last night. They offer 8 decks games: H17,DOA,DAS,No RSA with no more than 30 card cut off. Now, is this a good game? Can I use K-O to win?

It's a very good game. Pen is king!

I assume resplitting of non-ace pairs, but no surrender, in addition to the rules you list. This set of rules is bad, quite bad for 8-decks. 7 1/2 deck pen is exceptional, unheard of.

Betting:

1994 Wong High-Low
$10 unit bet, 100 rounds/hr.
TC <= 2: 1 unit
2 < TC <3: 2 units
3 < TC <4: 4 units
TC >= 4: 8 units

Playing:

1994 Wong High-Low

Sim results:

Initial Bet Advantage: 0.82%
Hourly Win Rate: $14.01
SCORE: 21.83

Session Data ($500 [50 unit] playing bank, $1000 [100 unit] goal, maximum 400 rounds):

53.14% of sessions win, 46.63% of sessions lose and 0.24% of sessions push. 37.24% of sessions reach goal and 31.70% of playing banks tap out.

Change the penetration to the more typical 6 of 8, or 75%; leave everything else the same:

Initial Bet Advantage: 0.10%
Hourly Win Rate (100 rounds/hr. and $10 unit bet): $1.38
SCORE: 0.36

Session Data ($500 [50 unit] playing bank, $1000 [100 unit] goal, maximum 400 rounds):

50.24% of sessions win, 49.35% of sessions lose and 0.41% of sessions push. 24.11% of sessions reach goal and 23.62% of playing banks tap out.

As21forme writes, "Pen is king." I simmed High-Low, because I am much more familiar with it than with KO. The results should be similar.

I'm quite shock to see such a deep penetration myself too! Probably they give good penetration to make up for the bad rule? They do offer 2D@ S17,DOA,DAS,RSA. But, too bad the table minimum is $100.
Here is the question for you: If I have $1,000 bank roll for an evening at this casino, should I play on 2D with S17,DOA,DAS,RSA at $100 minimum or play 2D with H17,DOA,DAS,RSA at $25 minimum?

I think it would somewhat depend on your objective for the evening and how you bet in the two different games and your willingness to lose all your $1000. The added advantage in rules (s17 vs.h17) and higher hourly win rate is swamped by the added Risk of trip Ruin the larger unit size ($100 vs. $25) drives. I did some rough comparisons using BJRM for penetration of 70 of 104 cards, 1 to 8 unit bet spread (8 at TC=5) for the two 2D scenarios (without RSA) in a 4 hour trip, $1000 BR, and a goal of doubling the bank. For the 2D, $100 game, your risk of trip ruin is 85%, whereas in the 2D, $25 game, your risk of ruin is 49%. The chances of you winning $1000 in both cases are about 51-52%. Adding RSA helps both, but I'm guessing the big difference in Risk of Trip Ruin remains.

I'm no pro at this, but I happened to have the tool up so I figured I'd give it a shot. I think others would have additional perspectives too.

$1,000 bank and $100 minimum bet? You are severely undercapitalized.

Suppose that you are down a few hundred dollars very quickly and then get a pair, split it, possible resplit and double down on one, maybe two or three of the hands, getting weak totals and lose them all as the dealers gets 20 or 21 with an upcard of 5 or 6. You have lost your $1,000 bank in a matter of minutes.

You should use TKO from "The Color of BLackjack" to get the best return as you'll be dramatically underbetting a lot of opportunities late in the shoe.