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Hitting and Standing
“The Most Common Decisions”

Decisions, Decisions 

Almost as important as which of the 27 pairs of shoes you are going to wear with your lovely outfit to the casino, is knowing the proper way to play each and every hand you receive at Blackjack.  If you make the proper decisions, you can buy another pair on the way home. 

Hitting and Standing are the two most frequently used actions by the player when playing the game.  These two actions will never be confused with rocket science, but do involve mathematically correct decisions.  How to play some hands is very obvious. Others seem obvious, and are played incorrectly. No one at the table may notice, except the casino.  They do notice their bank account growing.

Before you make a decision in the casino on any hand you must always base it on one thing and one thing only.  You must observe the Dealer’s Up Card and make all decisions based upon what it is.  This is why and when we play the same hand differently.  We may have an Ace-7, and one time hit it, another time stand, and yet another time Double Down.  If you do not know when to make the proper decisions, ultimately you are one of the thousands of casino employers, paying the wages of everyone in the building.  It is imperative you know how to play each hand the only way it can be played, mathematically correct. 

Actions Speak Louder Than Words 

Casinos are often very noisy, and hand signals are very much the norm.  If you want a hit, or another card from the dealer, you would tap the table or make a sweeping motion.  Often new players watch others, or ask how to do it properly.  It is often much more confusing and complicated to describe this in words, as it is just to do it in the casino.  Certain variations are played differently, like when you handle the cards in “Pitch”, and use a sweep and tuck motion with the cards.  In normal Blackjack you do not touch the cards, or the wager, so these signals, albeit easy, are mandatory and help prevent mistakes.

You will continue taking additional cards until you are satisfied with your hand total or bust (go over 21).  If you bust, your hand and wager are taken by the dealer and your turn is over.  Once you have finished hitting, and like your hand, you Stand.  This is a flat-handed motion made horizontally over or behind your bet.  This simple wave tells the dealer, “No More Cards”.  As you get really drunk please be careful not to spill drinks. This becomes annoying to the others at the table.  It also helps to pay a little attention and take your time.  If the dealer is going faster than you wish, you can still take your time.  A polite thing to do is to give the dealer a tip, and ask them if they would go slower.  I have found time and time again, if you treat the dealer like a human being, they are more than happy to do just about anything for you, even give out free black chips (I have personally seen it, the highest over payment I witnessed was a $800 swing mistake, which was truly a $400 loss). 

Just Hitting May Be Wrong 

Many people will hit a hand and no one at the table will even give it a second glance.  Sadly we are in the background cringing and the casino is in the background saying, “Sucker”.  It isn’t guesswork; it is all skill.  If you are guessing, save yourself a whole lot of money and get the Playing 21 Program right this minute, because you are just throwing money away at the casino. 

The Playing 21 Program allows you to learn every single proper decision made in the game.  We have taken the time and created the First Hit Rules and the Additional Hit Rules sections.  If you are into Card Counting, we have both the First Hit Rules and the Additional Hit Rules at 21 different counts, allowing you to count cards in over 25 Billion different ways, basically whatever you want to do.  

The First Hit Rules apply to your first two-card hand vs. the Dealer Up Card.  If you receive a 4 and a 5, and the dealer flips over a 2, you have a Hard 9 vs. 2.  The program allows you to Hit, Stand, Surrender, Double Down, Double Down for Less, and of course Split (if it was a pair)  and take Insurance (See Example Below) if they dealer had an Ace.  If you card count, you may play this same hand, differently at different counts. 

Now you can run a million rounds however you decided to play.  You can, of course, see how you did collectively, in all the hands in the Win/Loss Report, and the Playing 21 Program allows you to do something no other program ever has.  It allows you to see exactly how you did at every single two-card hand you started with in the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealer Up Card.  This area is the biggest Blackjack breakthrough in history.  So, how did you do with your Hard 9 vs. a Dealers 2. In four simple mouse clicks, all the answers are before you.  You could set up different players to play different ways, or you can run the program again, choosing to play that hand differently this time.  Now you can look again, and clearly see what we are talking about.  Hey, the game is all mathematics.  There is one right way, and a bunch of wrong ways to play every single hand.  Learn the right way, and the program will pay for itself quicker than you decide that you want to go back to the casinos to play again. 

The Additional Hit Rules are a super-realistic approach to the game.  We don’t force you to make decisions in our program. We give you the option to do anything you wish.  After you have drawn a third card, the casino does not give you the same options as you had in two cards.  So, now you can set up the Additional Hit Rules to decide how you wish to play the hand combinations you have now, without being able to Double Down or Split anymore (because you have 3 cards).       

 

 

Broken Appliance 

Imagine if you went out and spent $500 on a new appliance and it didn’t work?  Would you not be pissed right off?  It is almost a certainty that you would go back and either get your money back or have it replaced.  Well, why are you happy with playing a faulty version of the game Blackjack?  Why do you find losing $500, by simply not spending $50 and learning the correct way to play Blackjack, acceptable?   

If you enjoy losing your hard earned money to the casinos, then we are sorry, but this site is just not for you!

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