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Choosing a blackjack dealer

4 Comments Posted by Admin Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 11:31 PM

Choosing a blackjack dealer

Besides many aspects in blackjack learningskills like card counting and betting strategy, it is another key point to choose a blackjack dealer that you are in favor of, because the dealer would sometimes give a great impact on the outcome of the game. A good dealer could make you more confidential to gain profits, while some evil dealer would deprive of the players advantages and even cheat to increase the chance of bankrupt of the players. Thus, selection of a blackjack dealer before heading to a table is must-be stuff to conduct.

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Choices of seat at blackjack table

1 Comment Posted by Admin Friday, February 25, 2011 at 7:33 AM

Choices of seat at blackjack table

Gambling for some people is the matter of luck, so choosing where to sit could be a profound course for them. They always think that different seats would bring varying responsibilities, and that their expected return will vary based on the seat they select. In fact, this is absolutely wrong. All seats are equal in terms of rates of wining or losing. It is evident that if players would play enough hands in each seat, the identical results can be nearly proved, which could approach the expected rate in statistics.

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Crazy to split 10s?

1 Comment Posted by Admin Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 7:10 PM

Crazy to split 10s?

Generally speaking, 10s are the most frequently occurring pairs in blackjack game with the receiving probability of 9.40%, and it’s 2.85% against a dealer’s 10, while against any other rank it’s 0.73 percent individually and 6.56 percent together. Such frequent emergence of 10s arise a concern that whether blackjack players should be splitting a pair of 10s, especially when the dealer has a 5 or 6 up. Some may say: Why not? To split the 10s as to make more money on the table when the dealer has easily busting card like the 5 or 6 up. It sounds profitable and reasonable.

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16’dilemma: hit or stand?

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16’dilemma: hit or stand?

At much of the time, we would see a hand of 16 vs. dealer’s 7 or 10. As can be found in the basic strategy, it is advised that players should always hit 16 when dealer has the up-card with value above 7, but it seems easy to bust with 16 in hand. Thus, many people are confused about hitting or standing with such a high probability of busting.

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Most valuable index numbers: Illustrious 18 and Fab 4

2 Comments Posted by Admin Monday, February 14, 2011 at 1:24 AM

Most valuable index numbers: Illustrious 18 and Fab 4

When coming to the freshly shuffled shoe, basic strategy is the best choice for players to play the first hand off the top. However, if you are counting cards, you can detect the changed situations where basic strategy is not appropriate with the fluctuation of true count. Then, how do we adjust the basic strategy? Here, the term of 'index numbers' in the card counting systems is introduced to indicate when a particular play is mathematically correct.

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Strategy adjustment and deviation

2 Comments Posted by Admin Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 5:56 PM

Strategy adjustment and deviation

In blackjack card counting, when faced with changes in true count, you need to adjust the strategy to play cards at the time, so as to get better results. In fact, according to true count to adjust the strategy can also get an additional 0.2% to 0.3% advantage for players. When the true count is very high, that is, the big cards take a larger proportion in the remaining cards, this will give gamers a greater advantage, so that you can never hesitate to stand with the cards valued at 12 in hands vs. the dealer’s 3, as the rest of the high cards can make the probability of busting for dealers soared. Adjusted strategy is premised on the basic strategy, which is a series of strategy adjustments to coordinate the change of true count to enable the players to obtain greater advantages.

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Balanced and unbalanced card counting systems

1 Comment Posted by Admin Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 8:08 AM

Balanced and unbalanced card counting systems

As discussed in ‘Acquaintancewith card counting’, we know that high cards and low card are two important types of cards in counting system which play various roles in dealers’ hands and players’ hands. When more low cards have already been dealt with the remaining decks rich in high cards, this is favorable for player, while having dealt more tens and aces out of the decks would make this situation reversible. Thus, all blackjack card-counting systems keep track of the high cards versus the low cards. How high cards and low cards are value-assigned and classified is the main factor to make the difference between balanced and unbalanced counting systems.

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How the Hi-Lo System works

0 Comments Posted by Admin Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 7:53 AM

How the Hi-Lo System works

Among the card counting systems, the Hi-Lo system is one of the easier and more popular card counting systems for blackjack. This system has the betting efficiency of 97% and playing efficiency of 51%，though the best system in the world has the higher betting efficiency and playing efficiency of 98% and 70% respectively.

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Side count of Aces

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Side count of Aces

In the cards counting systems, the betting efficiency and playing efficiency are two main factors to be considered to gauge the system. There is a tricky thing that the higher a system's betting efficiency is, the lower the playing efficiency becomes. In other words, a system which has no point value assigned to an ace will decrease betting efficiency in game, with an increase in playing efficiency. You know why? That is because of the unique role of the Ace card in blackjack. As for betting, the Ace is an excellent card since it can give the player a chance to gain blackjack which pays 3 to 2. But with regard to playing, it really sucks to hit an Ace. For instance, if you have a 13 in hand, hit and get an Ace, there is nothing worse than this. Thus, to better deal with Aces, an additional strategy called Ace side count is introduced.

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How to pick a card counting system

1 Comment Posted by Admin Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 8:30 PM

How to pick a card counting system

As mentioned before, the major aim for a counting system is designed to weaken the effect of house advantage in blackjack so that the advantage player can get an effective access to vanquish the casinos. Like the colorful life, card counting systems vary widely with their own advantages, so if you're just starting out, you are likely confused by all the different existing systems. This article looks at the factors used to rate each card counting system and assist you to determine which one is the best for a player.

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Varied rules on hole card

0 Comments Posted by Admin Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 8:21 AM

Varied rules on hole card

Frequently, when we go to a site to find a basic strategy, we are required to input what type of blackjack rules applied in the casino we plan to go: dealer peeks or no peek? Actually, we can be very clear if the difference of American style and European style blackjack is given. In European blackjack, the dealer only gets a face-up card and no hole card, while the dealer receives two cards with one face up and one face down in American style. However, whether the dealer takes a hole card or not is irrelevant to the game. It's what they do with your bets that matter. Next four kinds blackjack variations would be presented: BB+1, OBO, ENHC, OBBO.

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Insurance Tactics

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Insurance Tactics

Insurance is a type of wager when the dealer get A. Players can raise bet at most half of their original betting for insurance, to bet whether the dealer would get Blackjack. If the dealer gets Blackjack, double insurance betting amount would be awarded to the player. If not, the gambler will lose their insurance. The insurance betting is actually invented by the casinos in Macau, and then popular in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and other casinos.

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Common errors when using basic strategy

0 Comments Posted by Admin Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 10:31 PM

Common errors when using basic strategy

If you just spent very little time to play 21, then luck plays a large part, so the result is essentially unpredictable, you may win or may lose a lot. As in the independent events of probability, each event is independent, free from other effects. However, if putting the probability of events into the law of large numbers, then from the long run, in accordance with the basic strategy, the outcome will be close to the losing rate of players pre-set by the casinos, in which we can avoid a lot of loss due to the ignorance of basic strategy. For example, according to the typical blackjack rule, assuming the dealer casino advantage of 0.5%, if player bet $ 20 per hand, then the total betting amount expected is $ 1200 per hour(here assume that we play 60 hands in one hour). Players will lose averagely $6 per hour using the basic strategy, and $24 which is 4 times higher than the loss when using basic strategy would be lost if the players abandon the application of basic strategy. It can be seen that, wrong playing strategy will result in more loss in money. Here we'll discuss some errors blackjack players most likely to face during the process of blackjack game.

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Blackjack basic strategy

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Blackjack basic strategy

Basic strategy means that betting with the strategy will get a best result. But many people have not even heard of the basic strategy, and think that blackjack is very simple, and play on the table (visible everywhere in the casino), in which case, casinos have the advantage of 1-5%. This leads to loss even for no reasons, and only attribute to their own bad luck. Therefore, knowledge is power.

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The power of continuous shuffling machine

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The power of continuous shuffling machine

It is believed that most people who have been to casinos saw more and more shuffling machines used. Shuffling machines can speed up the pace of card shuffling and save a lot of time so that the casinos can more profits. It is these benefits-driven force that give rise to large numbers of machines and applications of machines. However, is this the only intention of casinos?

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Influence of Penetration

0 Comments Posted by Admin Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 4:19 AM

Influence of Penetration

In the article of House edge mentioned before, we focus on the impact the rules of the game offered by different casinos have on the player advantage. Likewise, in assessing the blackjack game, penetration is an unavoidable topic. In fact, a book named < The Blackjack Formula > published in 1980 has studied the relationship between the penetration and the expected value the card counters would gain.

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House edge evaluation

1 Comment Posted by Admin Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 5:01 AM

House edge evaluation

Blackjack game can be defeated, but not that easy gains can be obtained from the casinos, because casinos will set up some rules to help them to obtain a comparative advantage in every game. Casinos can not beat the players in a short term because of good luck, while the casinos are able to rely on the advantage to ensure the long-term profit making. We call the advantages as house edge, which is the main income source for casino. For example, the advantage of the 21 game for dealer is about 5%, meaning when a player bet every 1000 dollars there will be 995 dollars then returned to the player, while the remaining 5 dollars will be taken by the casino. If you play with bad gambling rules, you may be unable to compensate for the harvest time to pay for risk. In addition, the different gambling rules will affect basic strategy and the way of betting. So before you sit by the playing table, you should evaluate the game from various angles, as the game rules have a great impact on the calculation of house edge. Here are some simple data which helps us to calculate the house edge under different rules.

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