You can count the cards too. It tells you when the deck is shuffled. After a shuffle if you note down all the cards you've seen (2 per turn) then the choice you make can be a bit more informed. If you know you've seens all the 2s and 3s then 8 is not in the middle anymore as a basic example. I built a spreadsheet (because I'm obsessive) that calculates wether I should choose hi or low based on occurance of cards since last shuffle. Still no merit though!

nice guide : )

Edit 2 yrs later cos someone upvoted this - I got the merit ages ago now. Don't know when.

prety good guide,simple,not to complicated

thanks for the great guide.

I've never realize that it's possible to claim the prize immediately. Back then, I normally just click continue until i lose all the pot or cash-out half prize @@

A simple advice: Play at small-bet when you not sure about the deck (what card already out, what's not); then begin card-counting when you see that deck has been shuffled, and bet-high :)

Emili,
For now I won't rate your guide because there are some things that don't work out in practice on your cheat sheet. Your cheat sheet is basing the guess on a "raw" deck, meaning a brand new game with an unshuffled deck, and even with a brand new unshuffled deck I still disagree with your cheat sheet's suggestion to always bet high on 8 because there's literally a 50% chance of it being higher or lower when the value is 8 in a new game...so it's truly a lucky guess if you get that one right.

Also let's say that you play well, and you make it a few rounds into a single game of high/low, the cards that were used already by the dealer and you will be subtracted from the main pool of 52 cards. So the game becomes much more of a card counting/calculating game if you make it through a few rounds because depending on the cards that were used, it might not always be in your best interest to "always" bet high with low value cards and low on high value cards.

There's also the element of the shuffle that makes card counting and winning the game because of that harder. Let's say that you play a couple games, and then you do well and go in a few rounds in a single game...and then the game says "Deck shuffled" or something like that. That replaces back all the cards that were used resetting the game back to the original odds. So you might be 10 rounds into a single game, hit a "Deck shuffled", and then when an 8 is drawn you're back to the original 50% chance. The only thing I still haven't figured out is what triggers a "Deck shuffled" because it doesn't happen every game (my guess is that when all 52 cards have been displayed over the course of multiple games that triggers the shuffle..but I'm not sure).

I'm mentioning this information as a caution that High/Low isn't "almost purely a game of chance" when you get several rounds in, but in the early stages of a game, yeah it's more like that.

I do like your modifier information.

this guide got in the newspaper! https://www.torn.com/news.php?ID=360

Nice. I'd want to add though that after analyzing more, the verdict is that High-Low isn't a very good casino game if you want to win (or, well, lose little, because this is a casino!)

I recently posted a new thread with a minor edit that should bump up the chances a little, but it wasn't enough. Maybe in the future I'll write up the most optimal strategy, but I'm betting it's gonna be a) Difficult to implement and b) Still won't save you from the house edge.



EDIT: Not to mention.... we don't even actually know the size of the deck!

Is it possible for me to get the same card 4 times in a row at the start of the game?

I got 4* 10 and it was all higher...

I think the Casino is rigged.

Wondering who has gotten the pi from the 1m spin the wheel

not me

I had a little method of card counting, the first time I used it on high-low I got to 25 and got the merit.
A sample size of one is not enough to say the method works, it could have been chance.  I will have to try it again.  Not for a while though.

Thanks for the help, I was lost on that

soo where is the cheat sheet here?

where is cheat sheet?

the link for cheat sheet is not clickable

Agree! Where's the cheat sheet link. I am having a terrible time with this casino game/merit. This is just the past two days.

03:38:37 - 26/04/24 You chose high on high-low (round #1) but your card was low (3 vs 2) so your $10 pot was lost
03:41:07 - 26/04/24 You chose high on high-low (round #5) but your card was low (3 vs 2) so your $22 pot was lost
03:44:10 - 26/04/24 You chose high on high-low (round #1) but your card was low (3 vs 2) so your $10 pot was lost
03:44:30 - 26/04/24 You chose high on high-low (round #8) but your card was low (3 vs 2) so your $41 pot was lost
03:47:07 - 26/04/24 You chose high on high-low (round #2) but your card was low (3 vs 2) so your $12 pot was lost
16:07:44 - 27/04/24 You chose high on high-low (round #3) but your card was low (3 vs 2) so your $15 pot was lost
16:05:42 - 27/04/24 You chose high on high-low (round #3) but your card was low (3 vs 2) so your $15 pot was lost
15:57:17 - 27/04/24 You chose high on high-low (round #2) but your card was low (3 vs 2) so your $12 pot was lost
15:51:11 - 27/04/24 You chose high on high-low (round #4) but your card was low (3 vs 2) so your $18 pot was lost
or
03:48:01 - 26/04/24 You chose low on high-low (round #1) but your card was high (K vs A) so your $10 pot was lost
03:48:54 - 26/04/24 You chose low on high-low (round #1) but your card was high (K vs A) so your $10 pot was lost
15:56:29 - 27/04/24 You chose low on high-low (round #3) but your card was high (K vs A) so your $15 pot was lost
15:51:35 - 27/04/24 You chose low on high-low (round #5) but your card was high (K vs A) so your $22 pot was lost

That's only the 3v2 or KvA, not all the rest of the 4v2 or QvA and such. At this rate, I'm more likely to win the Slots Jackpot or Lottery before I ever get close to the High Low merit.