Blackjack Advanced Strategy

Part 1:

For all the blackjack gurus out there let us engage you in some beat it to the chase talk – some advanced strategy of the best of blackjack. When playing blackjack with some of the most advanced strategies you will want to consider everyone else’s hand composition – the number of cards that are in the round and each of the values.

As odd as this may sound, the advanced of blackjack would understand, so here’s for all of you. In your basic strategy of the advanced level is to land a 16 when then dealer has a 10-card unless your 16 contains a four or a five since that could lead to one of the brunts of blackjack. It works well is you have a 12 against a dealer’s four. While some strategies advise for novel players to stand there it is for the advanced blackjack gamer to hit.

Aside from learning how to game properly with your own cards is learning how to defeat the other players and gain information by reading the other players’ hands. You must also make some of your most critical decisions if the other players are holding certain cards so that you attain that blackjack and they do not. Yet of course the other players can assist you in defeating the house, making blackjack your best game.

Another kind of blackjack strategy is using the other player and profiting from it. There are far too many players who are don’t understand the extent and importance of their hand they end up missing out on the double or the split. This is unfortunate because there are far to many people who miscalculate not only their hands, but also at the hands of the other players.

Blackjack is a game of skill and the faster you develop it the better blackjack will suit you.

However, if you are willing and ready to take out the other players because sometimes blackjack can be a gruesome game, you can definitely play the other competitor’s doubles and splits or you may even get someone else to pay and play one of the split cards.

Now if you are in the middle of a blackjack match and there appears a pair of sevens against the dealer’s three, then you should split because 14 will lose more times than a split sevens will. A wise wagerer would actually add to the sevens releasing his own hand from negative cards only weakening his own hand. So it is wise to play other splits even the best of blackjack gamers do.

Sometimes you can even team up with other players to vie for that blackjack – this works especially well when you are low on the dough. Because then when you are splitting pairs you only increase your chances for success at this great game.

Playing blackjack at the advanced level can be tricky especially if you do not know what you are doing, but can be exciting if you are ready to win big.

Part 2:

Blackjack card counting is an advanced technique to win on blackjack. A player must first learn the basic strategies of blackjack before learning “counting”. By learning the technique of counting you will have the odds with you.

The basic concept of blackjack counting is that a deck filled with 10s and aces will be to your advantage. While the deck of the dealer is filled with smaller cards but is to the dealer’s advantage. Simply put, when the deck is in your favor bet to the maximum, when it’s with the dealer’s bet minimum.

This is because a deck filled with 10 increases the chance of the dealer getting bust. You on the other hand can just opt to stand. In an opposite manner, a deck filled with smaller cards makes the dealers chance to bust less. If you know the deck is filled with 10s or smaller cards, this can give you the advantage of knowing what strategy to use.

The dealer must then always hit until having a soft 17. To hit with a hand of 10 & 6 and knowing the deck is filled with 10s is a bad idea.

If the deck is filled with aces, there is high chance that you’ll hit blackjack. When the player has blackjack, the pay off odds are 3:2. The dealer will only win on the other hand if he also gets a blackjack. That’s why a deck filled with aces is always to the player’s advantage.

Blackjack counting is not done by memorizing each card that has come out of a 6 deck shoe of cards. If you are able to do that, I'd be in awe: you should be in the world records book or maybe even the loony bin.

Blackjack card counting is done by assigning the different card numbers with different point values. Always remember to pick a system that is easy to remember. This will cause fewer mistakes and you will lose less money.

As stated above, you will assign a point value for each card and you will have to add the value of the cards that have come out. This is called the running count. Based on the plus/minus strategy, here are the values assigned.

2, 3,4,5,6 = +1;
7, 8, 9 = 0;
10, J, Q, K, Ace = -1

To illustrate this more clearly:

The first card dealt is an ace, so we start by having -1. Then 6 is the next card dealt so we add 1. This makes the run count back to zero. Then a 3 and 4 follows, making the run count now 2.

After figuring the run count, you can try to figure the true count. You take the running count you have and divide it with the number of decks remaining from the shoe.

The true counts tell you the appropriate bet size and you can base your strategy from there. Good luck!