There are also slight variations in strategy when you play a 6 deck game versus a single deck game. Rather than teach you 9 different basic strategy charts for each variant of blackjack you will ever see, we decided to run our simulation against the games people will most commonly see and teach one basic strategy that is sufficiently effective.
No wonder so many blackjack players are dismayed to hear that blackjack is almost a 50-50 game, if playing basic strategy! The players lose far more than the so-called mathematical expectation. I did hear casino players at the blackjack tables expressing anger after quickly losing all their chips. For example, the following blackjack table shows the effect that the number of decks has on the house edge against a basic strategy player with H17 and DAS. (These are Total-Dependent house edges.) Notice that as the number of decks increases, the house edge increases incrementally up to 0.64% for an eight-deck game. Basic strategy for a single deck Blackjack table is easier to remember if you can remember the colour coordinates. In the tables below you will see hard hands and soft hands. You should use the vertical side to the table the player’s hand (your hand) and the horizontal width of the table as the dealer’s hand. The top table is for single deck blackjack (harder to find but still present in Las Vegas and Atlantic City) and the bottom table is for double deck blackjack (more common). The legend for both tables is quite simple.
The following strategy charts are designed for single deck blackjack. Before you begin using these charts, make sure that you are playing in a single deck game. These charts slightly vary for optimum performance on a game to game basis.
Action: H = HitS = StandD = Double P = Split
Hard Totals:
Hard Totals | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | T | A |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8 | H | H | H | D | D | H | H | H | H | H |
9 | D | 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 | D |
12 | H | H | S | S | S | H | H | H | H | H |
13 | S | S | S | S | S | H | H | H | H | H |
14 | S | S | S | S | S | H | H | H | H | H |
15 | S | S | S | S | S | H | H | H | H | H |
16 | S | S | S | S | S | H | H | H | H | H |
17-20 | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
Soft Totals:
Soft Totals | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | T | A |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A 2 | H | H | D | D | D | H | H | H | H | H |
A 3 | H | H | D | D | D | H | H | H | H | H |
A 4 | H | H | D | D | D | H | H | H | H | H |
A 5 | H | H | D | D | D | H | H | H | H | H |
A 6 | D | D | D | D | D | H | H | H | H | H |
A 7 | S | D | D | D | D | S | S | H | H | H |
A 8 | S | S | S | S | D | S | S | S | S | S |
A 9 | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
Pair Splitting:
Pairs | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | T | A |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 2 | H | P | P | P | P | P | H | H | H | H |
3 3 | H | P | P | P | P | P | H | H | H | H |
4 4 | H | H | H | D | D | H | H | H | H | H |
5 5 | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | H | H |
6 6 | P | P | P | P | P | H | H | H | H | H |
7 7 | P | P | P | P | P | P | H | H | H | H |
8 8 | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | S | P |
9 9 | P | P | P | P | P | S | P | P | S | S |
10's | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
A's | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
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