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“can you believe I’ll have you zipping through a deck in less than 20 seconds?”
This is hard to believe. I timed myself going through a whole deck without counting and the fastest I did was 25 seconds. Hard to believe someone is going to go through the whole deck while counting in less than 20 seconds.
That list is very useful. But the real trick is to learn to variate according to true count. There is no need to learn all the variations according to counting only the most important from true count -2 to + 3. Of course prepare to hear complains at the table from players that play basic strategy exactly and think that is the Bible of Blackjack.
I happen to a know an extremely beatable game down where I live and it’s the only club that offers it (in the whole city). Unfortunately, I don’t have the bankroll for it to take a swing at it. Anyone willing to team up and crush this casino, let me know. We can discuss uneven share of the profit.
~$250 max bet 6D-er, 70-75% pen (certain dealers even offer 80%), , DAS, RAS, S17, early surrender, no peek, split to 3 hands. Estimate casino edge of just 0.08%.
does this rule apply ONLY to 6 decks s17??????????? can it also be applied to 6 decks h17??? or 2 decks h17??? or 2 decks s17??? just need to know if 6 decks s17 is the only situation FOR 16vT “RS” ! thx
Hmmm seems I have been making some bad calls for years now, I thought splitting tens against anything but an ace or 10 was a good move :/ Thanks for setting me straight!
This isn’t random shuffle. It is designed to teach us hard lessons and allows no room for gambling as you would at the casino. While there are rules that use the odds it allows no room for streaks, and ultimately causes you to lose if you gamble at all. If you use the coach you will ultimately lose in the end if you make a single mistake. Real blackjack isn’t that cut and dry.
Their cheating isn’t limited to the circumstances you describe. And yes, it’s ostensibly idiocy for them to risk their licenses but they get away with it so apparently that is an insufficient deterrent or the gaming commission is such that the casinos aren’t actually taking a risk… and you’re seven consecutive losses at Blackjack is nothing compared to my 22 consecutive losses at Baccarat… 3 am… I was alone staring down about four pit people
Yet again you pose your question in a way that could mean multiple things. This will be my final reply regardless if you like my answers.
A) I don’t think this version is your question, but just in case: If you want to know how many blackjacks can be dealt from one 8 deck shoe, I already gave you that answer. It’s 32, because every blackjack requires an Ace, and there are only 32 Aces in an 8 deck shoe.
B) How many different forms of blackjack can be dealt? The answer is the same regardless of how many decks are in play. There can be 4 suits of Aces, 4 kinds of tens (T,J,Q,K) with 4 suits of each kind of ten. So, 4 X 4 X 4 = 64 different “kinds” of blackjack. For example, Ace of clubs and ten of clubs is one kind. Ace of clubs and ten of diamonds is another. If you write them all down, you’ll find that you have 64 versions. This is true in 1 deck, 8 decks, or a million decks.
C) There is one additional way to interpret your question. Let’s say you wrote a number on the front of every card in an 8 deck shoe. The first card gets number 1, the second 2, and the last card will be card number 416 (which is 8 X 52). Now there are more “ways” to get blackjack because you can tell the difference between otherwise identical hands like Ace clubs/Ten clubs because their numbers will be different. How many of these ways to make blackjack are there? 32 different Aces times 128 different ten-value cards = 4096 “ways”. That answer seems completely useless to me, but maybe that’s what you wanted to know. In real life, we can’t tell the difference between two identical hands.
Further questions will be ignored, but thanks would be merited.
Are you asking how many can be dealt from one shoe, or how many distinct ways to make blackjack (which would not depend on the number of decks)? This seems pointless and stupid regardless. It’s not rocket science.
“can you believe I’ll have you zipping through a deck in less than 20 seconds?”
This is hard to believe. I timed myself going through a whole deck without counting and the fastest I did was 25 seconds. Hard to believe someone is going to go through the whole deck while counting in less than 20 seconds.
That list is very useful. But the real trick is to learn to variate according to true count. There is no need to learn all the variations according to counting only the most important from true count -2 to + 3. Of course prepare to hear complains at the table from players that play basic strategy exactly and think that is the Bible of Blackjack.
I happen to a know an extremely beatable game down where I live and it’s the only club that offers it (in the whole city). Unfortunately, I don’t have the bankroll for it to take a swing at it. Anyone willing to team up and crush this casino, let me know. We can discuss uneven share of the profit.
~$250 max bet 6D-er, 70-75% pen (certain dealers even offer 80%), , DAS, RAS, S17, early surrender, no peek, split to 3 hands. Estimate casino edge of just 0.08%.
does this rule apply ONLY to 6 decks s17??????????? can it also be applied to 6 decks h17??? or 2 decks h17??? or 2 decks s17??? just need to know if 6 decks s17 is the only situation FOR 16vT “RS” ! thx
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I’ve been a bit nervous about going to the casino and getting the hand signals wrong so thanks for clearing that up. Great article btw
Hmmm seems I have been making some bad calls for years now, I thought splitting tens against anything but an ace or 10 was a good move :/
Thanks for setting me straight!
This isn’t random shuffle. It is designed to teach us hard lessons and allows no room for gambling as you would at the casino. While there are rules that use the odds it allows no room for streaks, and ultimately causes you to lose if you gamble at all. If you use the coach you will ultimately lose in the end if you make a single mistake. Real blackjack isn’t that cut and dry.
It can be adjusted to make the dealer hit on a soft 17 in he options mode.
Make sure Blackjack pays 3/2, many these days pay 6/5
Don’t think it matters how many people are playing if its just 1 deck then blackjack could only appear 4 times, once for each Ace in the deck.
I think you would lose
Yes, you can normally only get one additional card for each hand when you split aces.
What drivel….
Their cheating isn’t limited to the circumstances you describe. And yes, it’s ostensibly idiocy for them to risk their licenses but they get away with it so apparently that is an insufficient deterrent or the gaming commission is such that the casinos aren’t actually taking a risk… and you’re seven consecutive losses at Blackjack is nothing compared to my 22 consecutive losses at Baccarat… 3 am… I was alone staring down about four pit people
Anon is correct at 32.
Yet again you pose your question in a way that could mean multiple things. This will be my final reply regardless if you like my answers.
A) I don’t think this version is your question, but just in case: If you want to know how many blackjacks can be dealt from one 8 deck shoe, I already gave you that answer. It’s 32, because every blackjack requires an Ace, and there are only 32 Aces in an 8 deck shoe.
B) How many different forms of blackjack can be dealt? The answer is the same regardless of how many decks are in play. There can be 4 suits of Aces, 4 kinds of tens (T,J,Q,K) with 4 suits of each kind of ten. So, 4 X 4 X 4 = 64 different “kinds” of blackjack. For example, Ace of clubs and ten of clubs is one kind. Ace of clubs and ten of diamonds is another. If you write them all down, you’ll find that you have 64 versions. This is true in 1 deck, 8 decks, or a million decks.
C) There is one additional way to interpret your question. Let’s say you wrote a number on the front of every card in an 8 deck shoe. The first card gets number 1, the second 2, and the last card will be card number 416 (which is 8 X 52). Now there are more “ways” to get blackjack because you can tell the difference between otherwise identical hands like Ace clubs/Ten clubs because their numbers will be different. How many of these ways to make blackjack are there? 32 different Aces times 128 different ten-value cards = 4096 “ways”. That answer seems completely useless to me, but maybe that’s what you wanted to know. In real life, we can’t tell the difference between two identical hands.
Further questions will be ignored, but thanks would be merited.
It was not my question but one given to me. Yes from one shoe how many ways.
Are you asking how many can be dealt from one shoe, or how many distinct ways to make blackjack (which would not depend on the number of decks)?
This seems pointless and stupid regardless. It’s not rocket science.
Wrong.