Blackjack - The game most craps players love to hate

[London Shooter]

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Yep. LS has it correct. 80% of the content on the forum is "hidden" from non-members. At any given time we may have 10 - 12 members cruising the forum, while at the same time there will be twice as many "guests" browsing the public portions. Then you get to add in the "bots" that are crawling the site constantly. It's really amazing how many "clicks" this little forum gets a month. I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you. LOL. All of those "clicks" is why I keep getting e-mails from on-line casinos all over the world wanting me to bastardize the site by uploading a bunch of their content and advertisements. Highly unlikely.

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I think maybe next year I'll put together a short strategy book defining my "Heavy's Third Base High-Low No Count Paroli Parlay Hey I'm Drunk Get Back Bet Blackjack Strategy." It's pretty much eye-in-the-sky proof, gives you a small edge over a 3-2 game and affords you the opportunity to play a sit-down game where you can turn a quick hit and run profit on a streak. $1995 and I'll include a perfect strategy players card and flash cards to help you memorize the plays. The average player can master it in 2 hours. Piece of cake for you guys. Of course, if you want the advanced version that's going to cost you some real money. . .

[220Inside]

WIll that include an appendix with how to throw that back hand spiral duck toss, or is that in the advanced version?

[Moe Bettor]

I play a bit of blackjack and have been fairly successful at it. I go back to Beat the Dealer days and complex card counting which I never could master. But eventually, after reading and studying various ways to count, I came up my own drunken, no discipline and brainless method which is (1) I use the basic strategy and I play at a table with at least two other players.(2) More low cards come out versus high cards..a plus 3 (for 3 players). Count must get to 6 before I jump bets up. And then I usually wait a hand beyond my good count..or not. I do not play attention to hands with mostly high cards so I am never confused by minus counting. Keeping plus numbers seems to work better in my head and I'm only going to 6. (3) I will vary bets up and down for no reason. $15 this time, $10 next time. Let them figure it out. Two straight losses on dealer pulls of a 6 to a 15..a 9 to a 12, etc. I am gone from that table. Three straight losses for any reason and I am also finished. Yeah..there are other subtleties like when I may hit 17. I've done that when I'm ahead simply to break up the norm. I acknowledge that the hands are being watched from above and below. My theory, wrong or right, is if they cannot make sense of what you are doing,you are just a stupid gambler. Your losses you may have on varying bets for no reason are fully made up by the money you make when the count goes good.

[mssthis1]

I came across a BJ game the other day that caused me to have a "double take".

There is a $5 single, hand dealt game. The game plays deck through the entire deck. There isn't a cut card.

For the last hand, in the event the deck has been exhausted while dealing it, the deck is shuffled and the cards are dealt to complete the last hand. Afterward, the deck is shuffled again.

I don't recall seeing that in any other casino.

Where was that at? The El Cortez has games like that but, on the quarter game for sure the dealer is either counting or trained to shuffle early if you raise your bet.

[House of Orange]

Scout if it’s in Biloxi, send me a PM! Not driving west of Treasure Bay!

[stratocasterman]

Don't play BJ myself but, have been told by a couple here that the "Target Betting" strategy has worked well in BJ...

[Moe Bettor]

It seems to me there is a basic advantage in BJ over Bac. If you have any card awareness or counting you have an advantage. Card counting in bac doesn't exist, does it? I suppose if you had a photographic mind. Bac is simply luck and you keep having to back up your losses which can really drive you into a hole. The advantage games are craps and blackjack and a biased roulette situation. IMO.

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There are some count strategies Gordon back variants, but they're generally geared toward side bets or when to bet Tie.

[stratocasterman]

Blackjack here is dealt with 2 deck continuous shuffle machines.

Question: Isn't it impossible to count cards against these shufflers?