I met a friend who counts 4 deck CSM ShuffleMaster One2Six and is winning greatly after 1 year or play. Apparently he has a unique way of counting. I thought CSMs cannot really be counted with great results. Any thoughts?
Rules: BJ pays 1.5/1, double on 9-11 2 cards only, any splits to 3 hands, double after splits, no surrender, insurance, dealer stands on soft 17. Multi action, 2 additional players per box, only front has to split or double.
I hear there are 16 cards in the channel, ready to deal before the discards have a chance to be shuffled and contaminate, but don't know if this is what he is using.
He also plays with friends so that when he can split, because you can have up to 2 additional bettors behind the front bettor who is the decision maker, he asks the front guy to split, but he does not follow suit. For example on 8-8 against a 9 he improves by the front guy splitting (the front guy has a small bet which he splits, but the big bet behind is not split). By splitting the cards, 8 against a nine is better than two big bets of each at 8 ag 9. Is this play correct? Is there a strategy for splitting the front bet (sacrificing it) when you can improve the back big bet?
Further, can I simulate this?

