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Online Blackjack News - Blackjack Tips from the Masters
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After Slots, blackjack is the most popular game in the casino. Not only that, casinos are practically falling over themselves trying to get you to play it, simply because most people play it so very badly, that the casino make a mint on blackjack games alone.
A short guide to the do’s and don’ts of blackjack must include the following. Always split Aces, no matter what the dealer is showing. This is especially important when the dealer has 6 as his up card. In this way, you can get a lot more money out of the dealer when he is in a disadvantageous situation. On the other hand, when the dealer has a 10 as his up card, then the choice may not always be so easy. You may believe, rightly, that the dealer has another ten. However, Even a cursory examination of blackjack math tells us that the 10s make up a mere 16 cards out of 52 cards. Therefore it is far more likely that the dealer has anywhere from a 2 through a 7 than he does a 10. Those 8s against a 10 are a losing hand, but splitting always loses you less in the long run.
Of course, there are things that you must never, ever do in a game of blackjack. For example, never split a pair of tens or fives. A hand of 20 is the third most powerful hand for the player, after a blackjack and a multiple card 21. The chances of repeating your success and getting two additional tens on your split tens are not good, since you have taken two of the 10s you need out of the deck or shoe to make that original 20. You'll likely get a hand that is a loser if you always split your 10s. This applies even against an otherwise weak dealer up card such as 5 or 6.
Splitting fives is also a mistake A total of 10 is a great hand to double down on when the dealer is showing 2 through 9 because your two 5s have increased the percentage of 10s in the remaining pack.
Splitting 5s is also a no-no. A total of 10 is a great hand to double down on when the dealer is showing 2 through 9 because your two 5s have increased the percentage of 10s in the remaining pack.
Because of the nature of blackjack, with each discrete rule change a change in some of the decisions in given situations is called for -- far too many to encompass in this article. Suffice it to say that blackjack has more sometimes than any other casino table game. The blackjack fanatic will memorize all the changes in hand playing depending on the rule changes in order to reduce the casino edge fractionally more than the fraction it has already been reduced to by using one Basic Strategy for all blackjack games.
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Blackjack2002 News Staff
| Monday, 30 July 2007 |
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