How To Beat The Dealer In Blackjack
- You can either beat the dealer, lose to the dealer, or tie with the dealer. The outcomes of Blackjack are very straightforward. However, the weight of those outcomes is entirely up to you because you can risk to lose a lot of money in just one hand. No one wants to lose and losing in Blackjack can hurt depending on your bet size.
- Yet that doesn’t stop all of us from trying to beat the casino. Specifically blackjack. We all think we’re better than blackjack. We’re not, of course. But we think we are. I compiled this list of 11 popular strategies for beating blackjack and ranked them here, starting with the least effective and building toward the most effective.
- For example, the player has 18 with a $10 bet down. The dealer has an ace up. The player takes a $5 insurance bet. If the dealer has blackjack, the player loses the $10 bet on the hand but wins $10 with the 2-1 payoff on the $5 insurance bet. Many dealers will advise players to take insurance if the player has a blackjack.
Beat The Dealer. There are some misconceptions about the objective of the game of blackjack but at the simplest level all you are trying to do is beat the dealer. How do you beat the dealer? By drawing a hand value that is higher than the dealer’s hand value; By the dealer drawing a hand value that goes over 21.
Dr. Thorp's Beat The Dealer Basic Blackjack Strategy |
Here's a little something I picked up a long time ago and thought you might find useful.
There was a book published some twenty years or more ago, called 'Beat The Dealer' by
a Dr. Thorp, who systematically played some 100 million blackjack hands using computers
(obviously). From his results, he published the following tables in his book which lay out the
proper basic strategies for playing blackjack hands.
How To Beat The Dealer In Blackjack
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Of course be advised that Lifesmith makes no claims other than what we state here.
I don't even enjoy playing blackjack (I find craps and poker more fun and profitable)...
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The top table is for single deck blackjack (harder to find but still present in Las Vegas
and Atlantic City) and the bottom table is for double deck blackjack (more common).
The legend for both tables is quite simple:
| H = Hit | S = Stay | D = Double Down | P = Split |
Single Deck | Double Deck |
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Keep in mind that these are the basic strategies. There are adjustments
that need to be made to these plays depending on the particular house
rule variations and upon the leanness or richness of certain card types
remaining in the deck (for those card counters out there).
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Enjoy and good luck; if you make a ton of money using this, send me a
postcard from the casino!