One of the biggest myths about blackjack is that you need luck to win. In fact, blackjack is a game that takes skill and with a strong knowledge of the rules and basic strategy you can greatly increase your odds of winning. When you add an understanding of one of more card counting systems to [...]

In most casino games of blackjack, the house advantage is ~ 8%. The house gets this advantage by the dealer being the last player to act. By acting last, all other players have already made their decisions and could quite possibly bust before the dealer has his turn. By using correct blackjack basic strategy, you can [...]

It is extremely important to understand how card counting works, before you can successfully apply the strategy to your blackjack game. The entire basis of card counting is to keep track of every single card dealt, so you can adjust your betting pattern to fit how your particular blackjack shoe is going. Most card counting systems [...]

In the blackjack strategy most of what you do is determined by the face card the dealer is showing, and how that corresponds to the two cards you are dealt. You can eliminate most bad blackjack decisions by learning basic blackjack strategy. Here are the most common mistakes when playing a game of blackjack. The [...]

Winning blackjack players know how to play the game. This means having a complete knowledge of how to play blackjack, not just a basic understand of the game play and how to place bets. To win at blackjack, you start with the fundamentals of basic strategy – how to play hard hands and how to [...]

Decks Blackjack can be played with any number of decks. As the number of decks increase, the game becomes better for the house (casino). In the old days, the game was single-deck Blackjack. Eventually, casinos figured out that they could improve their odds by adding one more deck. Today, single-deck Blackjack in the real world [...]

Blackjack before 1962: Before publication of the classic book “Beat The Dealer” by Edward O. Thorp in 1962 no single player had ever suspected of such a thing as the Basic Strategy. Everyone used one’s own mixture of superstitions concerning the way in which one or the other hand had to play. Plus, some experience [...]

The big advantage to a soft hand is that you can take hits with less risk of busing. But that doesn’t mean you can be carefree about how you play your hand. Take a look at the dealers’ showing card and play your cards as follows: If you have an ace with an 8 or [...]

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After receiving his initial two cards, the player has four standard options: he can “Hit,” “Stand,” “Double Down,” or “Split a pair.” Hit means to take another card. Stand(stay) means to take no more cards. Double down means on his first two cards, the player may “double down,” double his bet and receive only one [...]