Again citing Revere, he had written that when he was a do-it-yourself count player in the '50s, he never knew what his advantage was. That changed when Thorp published.
FWIW, look at the Ultimate Count values from the first edition of BTD: 6,5,9,11,6,3,0,-3,-7,-9. There are forty total points offsetting each other. Take the tags for deuce thru seven, divide by 5 and round: voila, 1,1,2,2,1,1 or the Stepine Count, marketed as HiOpt2.
Congratulations on the upcoming anniversary of your birth. Tuesday comes my fifty-ninth. Let's see if my soon to be exwife remembers this one. She missed the previous twenty-five. But my divorce should be final before the end of August. I may go back on the road and play fulltime, which was what I was doing before I wed in '79. Or not, as there's no fool like an old one.
