Advance Skills for Online Blackjack.
Another aspect of blackjack that becomes possible because of the known quantities is that you can actually get an edge over the casino by adjusting your play based on what’s going on in the game. Here’s how that works:
Imagine you’re playing roulette. There are 38 slots on a roulette wheel, so your odds of getting any individual outcome are 37 to 1.
But what if once the ball landed on a spot it stayed there? And it was impossible to hit that number again until the croupier hit a reset button of some kind?
The odds change. Instead of having a 37 to 1 shot, you now have a 36 to 1 shot.
The slot is fille, and your odds keep improving. Eventually you’ll have an edge over the house, because a single number bet pays out at 35 to 1.
Once your odds become 34 to 1 of winning that bet, you’re in a profitable situation. As those odds continue to improve, so does your edge.
Wouldn’t it make sense to bet less when all the slots were available and more.
Unfortunately, games of roulette don’t have a memory in that way.
What this means to the player is that if they keep an eye on the ratio of high cards to low cards, they can raise their bets when the deck has a relatively large number of high cards. The aces and tens improve a player’s chances because they increase the odds of getting a “natural” on the first two cards.
A natural, or a “blackjack”, is a 2 card hand consisting of a ten and an ace. Which automatically has a total of 21. This bet pays the player 3 to 2 instead of even money at UFABET.
And it doesn’t take a genius to count cards, either. You don’t need a photographic memory. The aces and 10s are assign point value for the purposes of counting cards. And so are the low cards (usually the threes, fours, fives, and sixes). By tracking those points, a player can get an idea of the ratio of high cards to low cards in the deck.
Another way to get an edge is to notice when high cards or low cards come in “clumps”. They tend to stay in those clumps even when shuffled, so you can raise your bets when a favorable clump is coming due. This is call shuffle tracking.
You can even get an edge by exploiting sloppy dealers. We’d never encourage anyone to cheat at blackjack. For one thing, it’s illegal. For another, it’s unnecessary.
But if a dealer is sloppy enough to show me their hole card, we’re going to look.
And some dealers have “tells”, nonverbal clues to their hole card, just like poker players.
The advanced section of this guide features detailed instructions about all of these advantage play techniques outlined above.