Playing blackjack tonight. Any advices?

Question

I will play blackjack at the charity sorority event (we buy chips, $1 per chip, at the end of the night we turn the, for raffle tickets which could get us prizes), therefore the dealer at the blackjack table will be a sorority girl, not a pro.

Rules are: 1-2 decks, doubles/splits are allowed, etc. hit on soft 17.

I've learned Basic Strategy (table with combinations). Any advices? Especially in terms of bets and stuff.

Thank You.

Answer 1

Good idea is to think that the face down card the dealer is showing is a 10 and play off of that.  Like if the dealer is showing a 6, you'd probably want to stay with anything better than a 12.  Don't double down when the dealer is showing a face card.  It is safe to double down on a 8 or a 9 if the dealer is showing less than that.  Don't split if your card is equal or less than the dealer's card.  Keep a running tally in your head of the face cards.  2 Decks --- 32 face cards and 8 aces.

Answer 2

If its not in a casino, force them to play by rules that favor the player, chances are they may have never heard of the surrender option, learn strategy for surrendering, and try to force them to allow it when it is the correct play, this will help your odds.

Strategy differs between one and 2 decks, so make sure you are playing the correct one.

With those rules assuming you can double on any two cards, you can expext to win money playing single deck with perfect strategy, however blackjack strategy for single deck is far more complex than multideck strategy, since sometimes a hand of 10,2 will be treated differently form a hand 0f say 6,6 or 7,5

to learn the correct playign strategy visit:

http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bjbse.php

The simplest card coutnign system available woudl be one that keeps track of only 5s or only aces  5s are the worst cards in the deck so if you havnt seen any yet, you may wnat to wait for the shuffle, and if you havnt seen any aces you may want to raise your bet.  This is not a super powerful card coutnign system, worthy of attacking a casino, but it will help and it woudl be very easy to employ.

Answer 3

Charity rules are usually different from "Vegas" blackjack in that often the charity uses some rules that are not player friendly, and often pays only even money for a blackjack, instead of 3-2.  This makes it harder to win!

Try to use the card counting advice, it may help, especially if the dealers are amatuers and don't shuffle well, lol. Watch for an opportunity and raise your bet big if it does show up.

But keep in mind it is a charity and the money goes to a good cause.

Answer 4

you can get a blackjack cheat sheet online and print it out. basically, it tells you what to do with any hand you have vs what the dealer is showing.