Full table, u get 99 dealer shows 9. Split correct? Dealer always has a 10.



44 vs dealer 4. Split or double?

split 9s. Never ever split 4s with the dealer showing a 4. VVerrrryy frustrating when people do things like that.

 

Originally Posted by macdaddymague

Full table, u get 99 dealer shows 9. Split correct? Dealer always has a 10.

44 vs dealer 4. Split or double?

Split the 9's, just hit the 4's.

Did anyone yell at you? When I used to play a lot, I used to usually keep my mouth shut at a full table, but explain why they shouldn't do that again. If they didn't listen, it was the most frustrating thing ever. Very easy for someone on a BJ table to directly fuck over your profits. I have such a love/hate relationship with BJ, sigh. Haven't played it in almost 2 years.

 

Originally Posted by tsxxx04

Did anyone yell at you? When I used to play a lot, I used to usually keep my mouth shut at a full table, but explain why they shouldn't do that again. If they didn't listen, it was the most frustrating thing ever. Very easy for someone on a BJ table to directly fuck over your profits. I have such a love/hate relationship with BJ, sigh. Haven't played it in almost 2 years.

yes it frustrates the hell out of me too. but in the long run it doesn't matter. they'll help you as much as they hurt you. But you wont remember the times they help you

Ive never understood/dont know why anyone would split 9's in a scenario like this.

I mean ur playing that the dealer has a 10 under there at all times so why would you wanna split and what cards are you hoping for? 2 10's so you push?

Same when ppl say you ALWAYS have to split 8's...

 

Originally Posted by tsxxx04;6226979[B

]How will they help you?[/B] Their mistakes are +ev for the casino, not the other players. It's not like poker where others -ev plays are +ev for you, you are basically playing all together against the dealer on a BJ table. Every mistake you make increases their (the casino's) odds.

How will they hurt you? Them making the wrong decision has 0 impact on other players in the long run...people yelling at other players tilts the f out of me. Let them play how they want to play.

 

Originally Posted by tsxxx04

Aren't the odds only 51/49 in casinos favor when playing proper strategy?

It's actually 50.5/49.5 but I'm nitpicking. If you play like shit, it will be closer to 60/40 but has no effect on other players in the long run.

 

Originally Posted by SICKTIGHT311

It's actually 50.5/49.5 but I'm nitpicking. If you play like shit, it will be closer to 60/40 but has no effect on other players in the long run.

I don't understand how it doesn't affect other players at a table but it doesn't really matter. I only yelled at someone once, and they didn't even speak English (and I was drunk) and they were annoying the hell out of me. I generally only play once a year now (on my bday) but for the first time since 21 I didn't make it to the casino this past year. Also, many times the dealers would comment about how I should say something because it was costing me money. I used to play farrrrrr too often. To the point where a floor manager once commented that a nice young girl like me needs to stop coming down to AC and deggening so often. That's when I limited myself to once a year, lol. I also ran ridiculously below expectation and had >15 losing sessions in a row-playing properly obv.

You'd be surprised just how little dealers know about blackjack.

book says split 99/ just hit with 44 /thread

get your ass off the chair and walk to the guest store and pay three bucks for the perfect strategy card. place that puppy right in front of you and continue playing.

What's the count??

Seriously tho,

don't split nines. never split fours.

and it makes 0 difference to you what others do... that is all.

 

Originally Posted by tsxxx04

hitting on 16 is the only thing that isn't standard by the books I thought. You're just supposed to always do the same thing. I could be wrong, though obviously. I posted later that I only yelled at someone once and it his lack of BJ skills was only half of it. He was the only other person at my table and kept hitting on 17 and 18 and I had been tallying up how much it cost/gained me and it lost me over $500 and then I got kind of bitchy but he didn't speak a word of English so it was a waste of my time. My bitchiness in that instance was nothing compared to how nasty I've seen people get, though.

this makes no sense... you mean you like kept track of where all the cards would have been after the first time he did it, rainman style?

Uhhh, he did the proper thing in splitting 8's against a dealer's ten.

Proper strategy involves making a winning hand, not staying on a losing hand. 18(9,9) versus a dealers 9, is a losing hand. Splitting, gives you a chance to tie @ 19 or continue to hit. On 4's, you should be doubling on dealer's 2's 3's 4's 5's and 6's, hitting against the rest.

**Wizard of odds contradicts my 9's statement, but I won't edit it out.

You only don't split 9s on a dealer A, 7, or 10

You never split 4s, don't double either, hit that bitch

Oh, and don't berate other players either. Their mistakes can help or hurt you equally.

@tsxxx. What Hank is saying is you can only really know how his mistake affected you on that one hand. For example where you keeping track when after he hit a hand the very next hand you got dealt a blackjack?