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A Closer Look at Blackjack Strategies

In Blackjack, there are reasons why the situation is favorable to the player.

Furthermore, there is a better chance, in such case, that a Blackjack is dealt. The player and the dealer have the same chance to have a Blackjack.

However, if the dealer has a Blackjack and the player does not, then the player loses the bet.

If it's the other way around, then the player wins an amount equal to one-and-a-half times the bet.

The dealer and the player also have the same chance to receive a stiff, for instance, a hand value of 16. The dealer has to draw to such a hand while the player has the option to stand.

Hence, if there is an excess of high cards in the deck, there is a greater chance that the dealer will bust.

There is also a better chance to form a good hand when you double down on hard hands when there is an excess of high cards.

Contrarily, when there is an excess of low cards in the deck the situation is, in general, favorable for the house.

The Basic strategy is not a winning strategy. However, the player who employs this method plays about even with the House, at least in one-deck games dealt under Las Vegas Strip rules.

In a game played with more than one deck, the same player will have a very slight disadvantage. In any case, a player has a much, much better chance of a 'winning streak' if the Basic strategy is sued instead of bad play based on 'hunches'.

On the other hand, the Complex count strategy is a powerful winning method which can be used in games played with one or more decks.

Various computer simulations under real Casino playing conditions were made for this strategy.

They have shown, for example, that in one-deck games played under Las Vegas rules, with bet variations from one to five and with somewhat more structured playing tables, the player has an advantage over the House of about two point six percent.

In a multiple deck game, the player's advantage decreases slightly (for instance, in a four-deck game it decreases by about zero percent).

Since the occasional weekend player may have neither the time nor inclination to study the Complex count strategy, we present the Simple point count. This is a simpler method, much easier to master.

When the Simple count is a large positive number, there is an excess of high cards in the deck used in the game. The greater the Simple count is, the more high cards are among the remaining cards.

When the Simple count is a small negative number, there is an excess of low cards in the deck. In fact, if the Simple count is positive and large, we had to add many times + one to obtain it.

Hence, many of the twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, and sevens had to be removed from the deck and hence must be in general an excess of high cards.