What if they made 2-card BJ optional.
BUT WAIT!
They tell you you can choose to play the hand instead of getting the instant pay... the dealer has a 6 upcard.
do you a) take the 3:2 2-card pay or do you decide to double-down?
Potential payout is $50 more but at what risk? SO what you choose?
Quote: MalaruThe cards are delt- and you got the 10-A BJ- WOOHOO it was a 3:2 table and your about to get $150 passed your way
BUT WAIT!
They tell you you can choose to play the hand instead of getting the instant pay... the dealer has a 6 upcard.
do you a) take the 3:2 2-card pay or do you decide to double-down?
Potential payout is $50 more but at what risk? SO what you choose?
Any casino will let you do this--for good reason: it would be really stupid.
You are risking $250 to win $50, i.e., laying 5-1 that you will still win the hand. But 11 vs. a 6 upcard won't come close to that winning percentage.
Quote: MalaruThe cards are delt- and you got the 10-A BJ- WOOHOO it was a 3:2 table and your about to get $150 passed your way
They tell you you can choose to play the hand instead of getting the instant pay... the dealer has a 6 upcard.
do you a) take the 3:2 2-card pay or do you decide to double-down?
You actually get to make this play pretty often in normal blackjack. Half the time you split aces, you get at least one 10, which is an A10 hand. The correct move then is to stand, not double. So between stand on 21 and get instant 3:2 on 21, you'll of course choose 3:2.
Except in many casinos, when you split aces, you get one card and that's it.Quote: P90You actually get to make this play pretty often in normal blackjack. Half the time you split aces, you get at least one 10, which is an A10 hand. The correct move then is to stand, not double. So between stand on 21 and get instant 3:2 on 21, you'll of course choose 3:2.
For what it's worth, although I don't do this regularly, I played at the $1 tables at Sahara. At the $1 table, BJ paid even money. Yeah, I doubled-down on a BJ. But that was more because it was only a buck, and I wanted to watch the other player's heads explode.
For the same reasons, I'd split tens at the $1 table.
Kinda fun, although mathematically the stupidest thing to do.
Quote: DJTeddyBearExcept in many casinos, when you split aces, you get one card and that's it.
Well, yeah, not really so often. But still it's already a situation that appears under normal rules.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtgWUbcf_0E
At 2:00, shows a card-counter first splitting tens and then doubling down on Soft 21. Is this really ever correct play with card counting and a positive count?
Quote: Jufo81In this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtgWUbcf_0E
At 2:00, shows a card-counter first splitting tens and then doubling down on Soft 21. Is this really ever correct play with card counting and a positive count?
It's POSSIBLE: if a counter knew that every remaining card in the deck was +1 (10 or A), and he also knew, with a side count of Aces, that all the Aces were gone, then he might make this play. In real life? Naah. It would be like putting a blinking red neon sign on your forehead saying "I'm a counter, please bar me." And that's assuming it worked--if your count was off by one, and you wound up with a hard 16 on your former 21, the sign should read instead, "I'm a moron."
