Strategy For Playing Blackjack

In a number of casino table games players make use of strategies to win. When playing Roulette or Baccarat players have no particular strategy to make win. So let’s try and look if there are any such developed strategies that may help in predicting your best win.

Before stating your strategy, you have to consider a few important points. When playing 52 deck cards, players play with 16 cards each having a value equivalent to 10 points. But when playing in any casino, players make use of eight decks of cards, so 52 deck cards is only considered as 30 % of that value. Playing eight deck cards also increases your odds with house providing you with better opportunity to win. So here you have around 128 cards that hold a value equivalent to ten points. But this is not much when compared to other value cards. So adding 8s and 9s valued cards, it increases your chances of getting a high value card by 46%. When playing blackjack, before determining your decision you have to have a good look at your cards. This is also one part that might help you consider the card that dealer might beholding. It is possible that dealer may be having at least one card of value 8, 9 or even 10. You also have to consider the card that is face up, so if it is equivalent to ten then there are still a number of chances that they might be holding 8 or 9. When speaking of all strategies, you also have to consider as having a card of value 6 as face up card. So the dealer might also be having a card of value 14, 15 or even 16 and the ratio is1:2. So when playing blackjack you always need to plan best to figure out which card dealer might be holding with him.

If you are holding 13 then think of all options that could turn out from the shoe for you. In case you manage to get 10 then you get busted. If dealer is holding a 6 then he is having 42% chance of busting. If the rules don’t ask you to hit even after holding 13 then you can always choose to stand. Most casinos might also ask you to hit if it is anything that is below 15. In case you are not planning to hit then you can win if the dealer busts.

A number of players have also developed strategies that can help in predicting the upcoming card including card counting techniques. In case you are making use of math, then you can always manage to beat the house as when using this strategy the edge is always educed to 1%. You can also refer to the table below to see which strategy works best for you. Having a look at the tables you may feel it is quiet simple. You can make use of this for comparing with what dealer has. You can always decide your best action after that. Looking at the table you can always decide on what to do next as it provide with best outcome results.

 

Dealers Face Up cards – Hard
HardTotals		2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	T	A
Y O U R H A N D	8	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
	9	H	D	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
	10	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
	11	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H
	12	H	H				H	H	H	H	H
	13						H	H	H	H	H
	14						H	H	H	H	H
	15						H	H	H	H	H
	16						H	H	H	H	H
	17-20

Dealers Face Up Cards – Soft Totals
Soft Totals		2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	T	A
Y O U R H A N D	A2	H	H	H	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
	A3	H	H	H	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
	A4	H	H	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
	A5	H	H	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
	A6	H	D	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
	A7		D	D	D	D			H	H	H
	A8
	A9

Dealers Face Up Cards – Pair Splitting
Pairs		2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	T	A
Y O U R H A N D	22	P*	P*	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H
	33	P*	P*	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H
	44	H	H	H	P	P	H	H	H	H	H
	55	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
	66	P*	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H	H
	77	P	P	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H
	88	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
	99	P	P	P	P	P		P	P
	10’S
	A’S	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P

Blackjack Strategy – Legend

H – Hit

– Stand

D – Double

P – Split

Hit = this is the time most players need to consider taking hit as they are not allowed to double.

Note:- hard total refers to total values without an ace in hand. If you have a soft hand then there are chances that you are holding an ace of value 1 or 11. So you can change the move you make depending on the hand you are holding. These tables provide with information that you need to consider when playing both types of hands.

Below is a table that provides information on things that can happen when looking at dealer’s cards. So if the face up card is numerical then you can see what might happen on busting. These are the probabilities when playing multiple decks of cards.

Dealers Face uphand	17+	18+	19+	20+	21	BJ	Bust
2	65%	51%	37%	24%	12%	0%	35%
3	63	49	36	24	12	0	37
4	60	47	35	23	11	0	40
5	58	46	34	22	11	0	42
6	58	41	31	20	10	0	42
7	74	37	23	15	7	0	26
8	76	63	27	14	7	0	24
9	77	65	53	18	6	0	23
10	71	60	49	38	4	8	21
A	58	45	32	19	3	31	11