Suppose you are 2 decks in, with a 6 deck shoe with a count of zero. You know that there are no neutral (7,8,9) cards left. How does this affect the game’s stats and your counting strategy?
This situation is just too rare to come. In case it came, basic strategy and card counting would be inaccurate. You just bet your max and take insurance all the way.
Don Schlesinger has a book where he provided a table w info/simulation on the EFFECTS of CARD REMOVALS.
If there’s 4 deck left,it’s still a shoe game (as opposed to single deck game), not worth it to mentally keep track of neutral cards. Perhaps the focus should be on how many ACES left , especially when there’s 1 deck left or single deck game, presumably bj is paid 3:2 rather than 6:5