Blackjack wins?

[skeeter195]

Honestly anyone who wants to make money at BJ should only be playing at the bigger games. Playing at the smaller games for anything but entertainment(which is crazy IMO) is just giving your money to the house.

 

If you want to try and make money at BJ then put in less time and play at the bigger tables. 2 hours at the $50 table will be a better chance at making money than playing 10 hours at a $10 table. Get that house edge down as little as possible.

[Prinz]

Honestly anyone who wants to make money at BJ should only be playing at the bigger games. Playing at the smaller games for anything but entertainment(which is crazy IMO) is just giving your money to the house.

 

If you want to try and make money at BJ then put in less time and play at the bigger tables. 2 hours at the $50 table will be a better chance at making money than playing 10 hours at a $10 table. Get that house edge down as little as possible.

You can't plan to make money at BJ on a cruise ship.

 

The only way to make money at BJ is to count cards and then play a lot of games, often. Because even with counting you only get at most a 1% edge.

Then you need to be at a place where counting is going to work.

Cruise ship casinos cut very deep. So that means you really need to hang around and not play until a shoe gets good. That's tricky on a cruise ship.

Even then you need to be on that ship most days out of the year and play, otherwise you're just counting on short term luck.

 

What you can plan to do is to just play by the book. Get drunk, have fun. Treat it as entertainment for which you pay a small portion of your money to the casino. People go drink at bars to have fun even though it's cheaper to do the same thing at home. That's how I look at it.

 

( there's a big difference in house edge between people who think they play by the book, appears to be the majority of the people on a cruise, and people who actually play by the book )

 

 

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[erdoran]

It's actually nice to chat with folks who appreciate the difference between dealer hitting soft 17, and the more subtle options!

 

"Best" play I ever saw was some genius splitting 5's!

[Prinz]

It's actually nice to chat with folks who appreciate the difference between dealer hitting soft 17, and the more subtle options!

 

"Best" play I ever saw was some genius splitting 5's!

Staying on a soft 17 is one of the big differences in house edge that you can get while still in a "normal" minimum bet requirement.

 

Another big one is that there's no surrender on ncl lower minimum tables ($25).

 

You've got to expect people playing terribly on low minimum tables on a cruise ship. You don't have to like it and you can salt away. But you can't play their cards for them.

It is "funny" when they try to justify terrible plays by pretending to know statistics.

 

 

 

 

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[erdoran]

I've never played surrender - I know there are situations where it's a better statistical bet, it just goes against my grain. Guess I'll read up on that one. I'm a solid basic strategy player who is relatively observant and focused - although very rusty!

[Prinz]

Used properly it's a more than 10% difference.

You go from like 0.66% house edge to 0.55%.

 

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