A shrewd blackjack player does not just walk into a casino and simply sit down at any blackjack table. No, a shrewd blackjack player will cruise the casino floor, looking and studying the tables.
He is looking for indicators of a good table. So what is he looking for?
Let
One of the more amusing player contrived blackjack strategies is to play two hands per round. I believe the idea is that if the cards don
It seems that come casinos will take one approach to what happens when a blackjack player splits Aces. Some will go with a more greedy approach in that they will only allow players to receive one more card after splitting a pair of Aces. In other words they treat it like a double down.
Then you have casinos that are on the more enlightened side of blackjack. They will allow blackjack players to hit for more cards after splitting Aces. This difference, while it sounds small, can actually make an impact on the house edge to the tune of 0.14% off their edge, which improves your own blackjack odds.
So why is this house rule such a big deal?
First off splitting Aces is not a double down and it shouldn
Did you know that your 3-2 payout is an advantage all by itself? That just being paid 3-2 on a natural blackjack eats away at the house edge?
No?
It
My last post talked about the advantage given to blackjack players when they double down. But this is not the only play that players have at their disposal that the dealer doesn
Sometimes when I
I read about this card counting system this morning. I
No surprise, the economy has hit blackjack.
It seems that seems that blackjack revenue has fallen 20% since last year. And it had already fallen 12% in 2008.
Normally blackjack brings in around $1 billion in Nevada. But last year it fell to the income level it had in the late 1990
Blackjack is the only casino game that offers players the chance to get as close to being even with the house edge as possible. The key is having a playing strategy.
A playing strategy is what tells a blackjack player how to play. It
Blackjack is not a hard game to play. Poker. Now that is a hard card game. But blackjack isn