Odds if you could keep hitting after doubling down
Quote: RaskalnekovI've been playing blackjack with my friends lately, and the person who acted as the dealer was allowing people to keep hitting after doubling down, rather than just getting one card. I told him this wasn't how the game was usually played and he stopped doing it, but I'm curious of how this rule change would effect the house edge, assuming liberal Vegas rules.
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
I can't calculate the effect, but clearly this will reduce the house edge and might well give the player an edge...
Eg. dealer dealt a 5 player dealt a 4 and a 5 (=9) and he doubles but then gets dealt a 2 to give him a rubbish total of 11. He can now hit to give a great chance of winning the hand, with a double stake, where proper rules would see him in a relatively poor position.
On 10, you' only rehit on 2-6 when the dealer has a 7 or more.
With 11, you add the Ace but lose the 6.
With almost all the hands you want to rehit, chances are you either bust or get a small enough card to require a fifth one.
It's a good rule for the player but I don't think it's a game changer for your typical player. I imagine an AP would make better use of it.
Yes. It is fortunate perhaps that this was more a social blackjack game than a casino operation, although sometimes 'social' can involve a slight 'rake' for refreshments or something.Quote: billryanIt's a good rule for the player but I don't think it's a game changer for your typical player.
I imagine an AP would make better use of it.
Sharpies might not trek across country for this rule or 'pile on' in some mad AP feeding frenzy but it would surely be of interest to them. I pretty much think that any actual casino dealer who did this would get bounced, not retrained. It would have been caught rather promptly by the Floor and by that darned Eye in the Sky though.
Quote: RaskalnekovYou couldn't redouble, but interestingly enough before I joined the dealer was letting people split any hand. One person just kept splitting and resplitting, and it was kind of annoying, so I made sure they changed it to only doubles. Before that, they were splitting 10/6 , 10/5, etc, which seemed even more busted to me. And if they got another 16, they just split it again.
Is winning a ton annoying?
Yeah, was this just "friends" or were you playing to actually win money? If you were playing to actually win $, you screwed yourself really hard. All of these rules favor the player...Quote: RaskalnekovYou couldn't redouble, but interestingly enough before I joined the dealer was letting people split any hand. One person just kept splitting and resplitting, and it was kind of annoying, so I made sure they changed it to only doubles. Before that, they were splitting 10/6 , 10/5, etc, which seemed even more busted to me. And if they got another 16, they just split it again.
Although, even with those rules my friends were still losing money, because they didn't know the basic strategy. So I guess I certainly wasn't doing them any favors.
