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Dealer's up-card causes many a blackjack error

By Fred Renzey
Nov 6, 2021 12:13 AM - Taking just your cards alone, there are 33 different starting hands you can be dealt in the game of blackjack. Now factor in any one of 10 possible dealer up-cards, and that's 330 hands you need to know how to play.
Many blackjack players miss these double downs

By Fred Renzey
Nov 5, 2021 6:16 PM - Did you know that in blackjack, you'll win only 44 percent of all your hands counting hits, stands, splits, doubles and blackjacks? However, you make up for most of that deficit by being paid 3-to-2 on your blackjacks - and by doubling down on your strong drawing hands.
Forget money management gambling systems

By Fred Renzey
Nov 4, 2021 9:43 PM - I just met another blackjack player who thinks he can beat the game with a money management system. Some of these systems are based on a clever betting progression, and others are based on win-goals with stop-losses.
Insure your blackjack for less?

By Fred Renzey
Nov 4, 2021 7:11 PM - What do you do when you're dealt a blackjack and the dealer's got an Ace showing? If you're in the vast majority, you'll take even money - it's a sure thing. Trouble is, taking the sure thing here is the wrong play.
Test your moral quotient with these scenarios

By Fred Renzey
Nov 4, 2021 4:10 PM - Most gamblers go to the casino hoping to get lucky and win, but figure they're probably going to lose. They know the house isn't in business to give away money. So many customers develop a "good guy/bad guy" attitude toward the casino.
Gambling myths only hurt players

By Fred Renzey
Nov 4, 2021 12:24 AM - Throughout the casino, gamblers search for some "foundation" to build a winning strategy upon for their favorite games.
Which blackjack game do you want to play?

By Fred Renzey
Nov 3, 2021 11:23 PM - At any casino you walk into, the blackjack games will look about the same. But when it comes down to the nuts and bolts, each casino has its own personalized set of sub-rules.
Ace in the hand

By Fred Renzey
Nov 3, 2021 10:17 PM - So you think you play a pretty solid game of blackjack, eh? Well, if you're like 98 percent of the players I see in the casinos, you bungle your "soft" hands something awful.
In poker and blackjack, bad beats abound

By Fred Renzey
Nov 3, 2021 9:16 PM - It hadn't happened to me in quite a while. I was playing two hands of blackjack and was dealt 20 on my first hand and 7/4 on my second. The dealer had an 8 up. I doubled down on the 11 and bought a 9 to make another 20.
'21' serves up a heaping dose of blackjack

By Fred Renzey
Nov 3, 2021 8:07 PM - I recently saw the Kevin Spacey movie "21" at a local theater. All in all, I'd have to say I enjoyed it. Was it totally down-to-earth in representing real-world blackjack? No, not totally. Like so many poker movies before it, some of the blackjack reality was traded in for Hollywood movie sensationalism.

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