These days you simply cannot make any progress as a blackjack player without first learning basic strategy. This is not as difficult as it sounds and merely involves learning a few charts. You will need to learn all of your basic strategy decisions before you play blackjack, this will form the bedrock of all of your future play.
Most of the decisions are common sense. Like standing on 13 or higher if the dealer has what is called a “stiff” which means a starting card of 2 to 6. These are the worst starting cards for the dealer to have because they carry the highest chance of busting from these starting card values.
All hands 17 or above are stands for example although I will put a firmer description of basic strategy in tomorrow’s post so look out for that.
Blackjack is also one of the online casino games where this knowledge will stand you in very good stead. So this applies whether or not you play live or whether you play online. How important is it to learn basic strategy? Well you are increasing the edge that the house or casino has against you if you don’t know basic so you must learn this stuff.
If you want to consider making money from blackjack then you need to learn basic strategy. This unfortunately takes a little work but you must knuckle down to work at some stage if you want to improve your blackjack game.
When you get a casino bonus like a sign up bonus for example then you are already technically ahead of the game. This then puts you into a flexible situation where you are starting from in front and can even afford to lose some money.
Basic strategy forms the foundation of online blackjack as well as live play and this is why it is imperative that you know this stuff. So do please keep a look out for tomorrow’s blog and also for the new videos starting next month on here and on my sports blog.
see you soon
Carl
