You add counting knowledge on top of basic strategy knowledge, suddenly you have the edge on a few high value hands per shoe.

Playing 100 hand per hour at $5 with, say, .5% edge, that is like $2.50 per hour average loss. Cheap entertainment, doesn't even pay for the dealer, the casino is kinda losing already even if you are too. Plus you then learn card counting and come out ahead.

Basic can lower the house advantage to .26%, learn to count and you can get an advantage.

Is this guy serious right now

You lose more slowly..

The correct chart depends on the exact rules of the game you're playing. Slight rule changes affect certain optimal decisions.

You can generate the correct chart for the game you're playing on wizard of odds

https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/strategy/calculator/

For the newbies there’s different basic strategy cards for the different rules in blackjack..so find out what rules your table has and search the BS card those particular rules.

These cards, especially the advanced ones are excellent

Rule differences, from most important to least:

1. Single or multiple decks - several differences.

2. Hit or Stand on Soft 17 - 6 differences.

3. Double after split, or not - tiny differences only for splitting pairs. Most important, don’t split fours if you can’t double after split.

Surrender, or not - your card should show surrender rules. If you can’t surrender, then just don’t.

Limited double down rules - just don’t double if you can’t.

Split limitations - just don’t split, if you can’t.

6:5. If blackjack only pays 6:5, instead of 3:2, do not play that game. Period. Go home.

https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/basics/#basic-strategy

print out the one you need for where you play. i laminate mine but it's not necessary. i use mine at the table. just make sure it's smaller that a playing card. just ask yourself, do i want to play perfect blackjack or imperfect blackjack? pretty simple.

In blackjack you can count the cards and play on variants giving you higher ev. For example I think on a true count of 4 you can split 10s and still have a high percentage of winning the hand

r/poker or r/blackjack would happily take your call.

Not really the right sub. There are plenty of blackjack, car games and gambling subs out there. This is more about collecting physical cards.

Try r/fiftytwocards.

This sub is just about physical playing cards, not card games.

This is a playing card collector forum. Probably not the right sub!

But mathematics over gut. "It was working" it a statistical outlier.

There are deviations from basic strategy, but that's another story.

If you want to have a positive expected result from your play you learn to count cards. Learning basic strategy is trivial in comparison. Card counting is not rocket science, but it's not simply memorizing a table. For most people basic strategy is the final stop on the blackjack journey.

Know your luck if your lucky or not or the dealer is good cheater or the player is like the dealer

Great to hear you're on a winning streak but basic strategy only minimizes the edge that the casino has on you as a player, it does not eliminate the edge completely.

To reverse the edge so you have the advantage you need to learn how to count cards. Some popular strategies include KO and Hi-Lo.

Aside from deviations, basic strategy and card counting are like a married couple.. it’s not one or the other like you are suggesting.

I don’t count cards, but my understanding was that card counting is used to tell you when to bet a little and when to bet a lot, but as far as how you play you’re still playing basic strategy.

40 or 50 Index Numbers using Original Zen Count Per Deck, a professional player would not use Basic Strategy.

Basic strategy. Although I’ll deviate and play more aggressive in certain circumstances

Basic strategy is the foundation of card counting. It doesnt matter what the count is if youre standing on a soft 13

NO. Basic strategy guarantees all "basic strategy players" lose in the long run. Only card counting, and only if you do it right, can guarantee winning in the long run.

Basic strategy is good, but it alone won't help you win, just loose less, to really win you need to start counting cards or some other form of ap

All I do is basic strategy since I like to socialize with the other players. It’s the players vs the dealer. We’re all in to bust the dealer. Counting takes time but not worth it because of so many distractions in a casino. Rather play have fun and on good night make some $$$

Lmao lose slower sounds right. I'd rather say it's best chance to win. Keyword: CHANCE. No guarantees!!! It's gambling! I do basic strategy 99% of the time haha.

Also if you value your time and money, don't play online!!! It's rigged. It's my belief the software games give the player better chance to win money than live dealer.

Basic strategy means you will lose about .5 cents for every dollar you bet. It gives you the best possible odds without counting cards. You cannot beat the game and long term you will lose money.

Beat the dealer by Edward Thorp is a good one that explains from the basic strategy up to the more sophisticated counting methods.

Blackjack basic strategy was developed in the first half of 1960s by Julian Braun, an IBM computer expert and innovator. His idea was based on the concept that due to the fact that Blackjack is a card game, its possibilities and odds can be calculated. Thus, if the pattern of the game is revealed, an appropriate strategy can be created accordingly which will enable players to predict the course of the game to some extent. Mr. Braun observed around nine billion different possible combinations of the players’ hands and the dealer’s up card. His discoveries changed how the game was perceived and played and were the base for many other strategies.

Here’s two research papers explaining one way to recreate and validate basic strategy AND analyze a card counting method:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d9fc/b037f9ea68862f96124c78c702cb6afe6ea8.pdf

http://inside.mines.edu/~mwakin/papers/mcbj.pdf

warning: advanced math

It is very simple. They calculate the expected value (commonly referenced as just "EV") of every possible decision. The decision with the highest EV is the correct play.

As a follow-up question, does anyone know how they arrive at the rules before they had the computing power to crunch nine billion combinations?

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No.

The average dealer bust rate across all upcards is approximately 42%, but this can vary based on the number of decks and whether the dealer hits or stands on soft 17.

Yes, the variance at blackjack is humongous, more than you can comprehend. Look, people playing with an advantage of 1% need a bankroll of $10,000 to spread from $10-100 with a 1% ROR depending on rules. You managing to win $400 from just basic strategy is totally within the realm of possibility.

But if you keep playing, you will eventually lose.

perfect basic strategy still leaves casino with around +0.5% edge

Sure, im profitable after 3 casino trips but that’s hardly enough of a sample size. You don’t even need perfect basic strategy to “make” money short term. But the math do be mathin and if you play long enough you will lose (and it probably won’t take all that long)

However that’s why gambling occasionally is still fun because on any given trip you have a reasonable chance of actually making some cash

Counting does not help much, it just points to those moments when you should bet more or less. Knowing that there are a few extra high cards remaining helps, and does increase your edge, but those same high cards could just as easily be delt to the dealer and not to you / the players. The edge is still very very small. Your days can and will be awful despite having good counts to play with. You will still loose more hands then you win even with good counts. Even with counting you can still loose more often then you win, and with greater magnitude, for hundreds of hours sometimes. Loosing streaks can and do last a long time. Winning streaks can do the same. Also break even streaks. This is a montononous game!!

The streaks you are describing is called variance and is quite high in this game. Akin to flipping a coin, if you get 10 heads in a row, that looks like a streak but you wouldn't be due for a tails, the odds still remain 50/50 on every flip. It's possible to get 10, 100, 1000 heads in a row but over time and through many simulations of heads or tails and blackjack (millions, billions, trillions), the odds still come out to the expected value. So if you bet $10 on every hand and play basic strategy (with a house edge of 0.5% let's say), you should expect to lose 0.5% of your bet every hand played. You might be up 650 or down 250 but this will average out over many hours and equal the expected value.

It is entirely possible to be profitable over the very short term. When it comes to the overwhelming majority of games out there the more hands you play the more you will lose.

Yes, I’ve been using perfect basic strategy for years. Many days I am extremely profitable. Unfortunately, unprofitable on more days.

Yes, playing perfect basic strategy in blackjack can lead to profitability over the long term. Individual results can vary significantly in the short term due to luck and variance. Even if you play perfect basic strategy, you may still experience winning and losing streaks. Basic strategy it's about over the long run and with enough hands played, following basic strategy can lead to profitability.
Do you not satisfied with results of your basic strategy? Perhps you should drop the number of bet or just try to play on free money firstly. When i was starting with BJ, i used free money firstly, and it provide me some income first. For example on Bitstarz and WILD io you can find no dep via registration to try, and also a lot of games that you can choose to spend time in.