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Most tournaments do allow doubling on blackjack, although some don’t. It can be a useful move, when winning 1.5 times your bet is not enough to accomplish your goal, but winning 2 times your bet is.
Would love it if we didn’t lose our game conditions when we reset, (or ‘shuffle the deck’). Still hoping to see a way to set differing amounts of pot sizes. Also, it’s a shame that it resets your pot when you reset the decks. That said, it’s the best trainer I’ve found on line to date.
Are the Basic Strategy Variations Matrix for Hi-Opt I? Where can I find the ones for Hi-lo? Also if I were to just use the Hi-Opt I count instead of Hi-lo, would that more profitable or would I need an Ace side count?
Playable single deck is extinct in Tunica and everywhere else except for northern Nevada. So unless you plan to regularly play in Reno or Wendover, forget about single deck. Use hi-lo; it gets the money and is the industry standard. Omega II and all other mainstream, validated counts get the money as well, but hi-lo has the most information published about it and is the easiest to use. Don’t reinvent the wheel.
Playable single deck is nearly extinct, except in northern Nevada, so unless you plan to regularly play in Reno or Wendover, forget about it. There aren’t many four-deck games left either. Your best bet is to learn double-deck and six-deck strategies and index numbers, easily learnable from Ken Smith’s cards:
Stefan, these questions are beyond the scope of what can be personally answered here. I respectfully suggest you should read every good book out there right from Beat the Dealer to all of Stanford Wong’s books, Arnold Snyder’s books, Don Schlesinger’s books, Norm Wattenberger’s Modern Blackjack and of course James Grosjean’s Beyond Counting. You should also get all of Norm’s software. The technical knowledge will be very valuable in fine-tuning your game along the way and also help how you approach other games.
Double 11 against 10 and split 8s against 10, bring your money and come play with me
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I haven’t been able to play for about a week.
I had a player double down on an ace/king in a tournament. He was a regular and knew the dealer. I lost because of that. Is that allowed
Most tournaments do allow doubling on blackjack, although some don’t. It can be a useful move, when winning 1.5 times your bet is not enough to accomplish your goal, but winning 2 times your bet is.
Would love it if we didn’t lose our game conditions when we reset, (or ‘shuffle the deck’). Still hoping to see a way to set differing amounts of pot sizes. Also, it’s a shame that it resets your pot when you reset the decks. That said, it’s the best trainer I’ve found on line to date.
good day anyone out there
Did you say that I could play for hours and make $22.50 if all goes well? I can go get a part-time job at the mall and make more than that
ken
Under the same conditions, if two hands are thrown at the expectation of winning and the same? Example: 22.50 for 3 hours?
exactly
Are the Basic Strategy Variations Matrix for Hi-Opt I? Where can I find the ones for Hi-lo? Also if I were to just use the Hi-Opt I count instead of Hi-lo, would that more profitable or would I need an Ace side count?
How could a 2 make the dealer bust??
your wrong…
Correct BS for 9,9 vs. 8 is to split. Split nines against everything except 7, 10, or A.
If you’re playing the USA peak version. The dealer should have already peaked at the facedown card and declared blackjack if he had a 10, A.
Because he didn’t at this point you already know it’s lower that 10 and if you split A,A you have a high probability of winning both hands.
It’s not how much you win……It’s how much you don’t lose……You can’t beat em…simple as that
Playable single deck is extinct in Tunica and everywhere else except for northern Nevada. So unless you plan to regularly play in Reno or Wendover, forget about single deck. Use hi-lo; it gets the money and is the industry standard. Omega II and all other mainstream, validated counts get the money as well, but hi-lo has the most information published about it and is the easiest to use. Don’t reinvent the wheel.
Playable single deck is nearly extinct, except in northern Nevada, so unless you plan to regularly play in Reno or Wendover, forget about it. There aren’t many four-deck games left either. Your best bet is to learn double-deck and six-deck strategies and index numbers, easily learnable from Ken Smith’s cards:
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Blackjack-Strategy-Cards-Set/dp/0982119178
Please see response above.
Stefan, these questions are beyond the scope of what can be personally answered here. I respectfully suggest you should read every good book out there right from Beat the Dealer to all of Stanford Wong’s books, Arnold Snyder’s books, Don Schlesinger’s books, Norm Wattenberger’s Modern Blackjack and of course James Grosjean’s Beyond Counting. You should also get all of Norm’s software. The technical knowledge will be very valuable in fine-tuning your game along the way and also help how you approach other games.