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Online Blackjack News - How Can doubles Help you win online Blackjack?
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When you play blackjack in a casino, whether or not you win may depend greatly upon your doubles. In particular, it hinges on 10s versus dealers' twos through nines and 11s against twos through 10s. Beating the bosses is greatly facilitated by getting a fair share of these hands, acting aggressively on them, and pulling the right cards when you do.
Sometimes, however, it seems as if you don't fall into enough doubling situations. Or, you encounter plenty, and end up drawing garbage in round after aggravating round. Not that you can't experience a profitable session without doubles. Or by repeatedly doubling on 10s or 11s and getting smacked with fives or less when the dealer is showing high up-cards. It may be exciting to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat occasionally. But nobody likes shoving out extra money then silently or otherwise having to beseech the gambling gods for gifts to save their skins.
The probability of starting with a 10 or 11 against two through nine or two through 10, respectively, is about 7 percent. This is somewhat more than once every 14 hands. Assume you're playing one hand, with three other spots in action at the table. You should average 80 to 85 hands per hour. This means you can expect five or six of the cited opportunities in an hour, subsequently pulling robust third cards in two or three cases and weaklings in the rest. At these nominal levels of occurrence, doubles essentially help you remain afloat. More favorable cases, and you should make money. Less, and, well, let's not talk about it. How unusual is it to encounter a session in which you get under or over the five or six possible doubles you anticipate for the assumed conditions? The answers can be found in the first of the accompanying lists. The figures account for more than 90 percent of all possibilities. They indicate the likelihood of receiving from two to nine candidate hands in an hour, when the law of averages says five or six are actually expected. The data show that, in fact, five or six should happen about one third of the time, but a sorrowful three or four instances are far from rare - at 23.8 percent, and a joyful seven or eight are roughly as common - at a combined 23.6 percent.
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| Source: Blackjack2002 News Staff
| Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
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