Doubling Down
“Make Mine a Double Barky!”
A Double Dose of Reality 
One of the clearest aspects about Doubling Down, is just how crystal clear it truly is. Every required Double is a mathematically correct, great money making play that must be done religiously…that is to say every single time; or it is exactly the opposite? Are you throwing piles of money out the window by Doubling on a certain hand?
The reason for this is quite clear if you understand Wager Frequency. Once Wager Frequency clicks in, you will start to understand more and more about this game, and you will wonder why no one ever shared this with you before. To put it in the most simple terms, if taking one card on your Hand vs. the Dealer’s Up Card makes this hand a winning hand, you must Double it every time and win twice as much (as a general rule it works well). If taking one card makes this hand a losing hand, you must not double it, or you will be losing twice as much. This is a general rule, but all falls into simple place in the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealer Up Card.
First let’s take a closer look at what Doubling is. Casinos allow the player, depending on the
variation of the game, to Double Down on their first two cards. It is a very simple process, where the player will place another bet next to their initial wager for up to or equal to that initial wager. The dealer will give the player one card and one card only on this “Doubled” hand. If you win, you get both bets paid, while losing costs you twice as much obviously. A pushed hand is still a push, allowing you to keep your wagers.
Most casinos will allow you to Double Down after you split as well. We recommend you play at casinos which offer the best game to the player. Any casinos not offering you these rules, are making things too tough, and you should AVOID these casinos at all costs. Play at casinos that offer most of the following Double Down rules:
· Allow Doubling on Any number of cards
· Allow Doubling on Any two-card hand, not just 10 and 11, or 9-11, and all soft totals.
· Allow Doubling after Splitting
· Allow Doubling for Less, and Doubling after Splitting Aces
A Shocking Discovery
McB Duplin, through the Playing 21 Program, discovered that casinos have been misleading their customers with inaccurate mathematical decisions listed on the “Basic Play Charts” that they hand to the players. This now seems an easy discovery as we collected numerous charts, and anyone can see the decisions are different, so someone is clearly wrong. We were quite shocked to see that some of the decisions players were “moulded” (“brainwashed” is a strong word) into believing were the correct plays, were grossly incorrect. Why is another topic, but clearly this isn't right!
It is simple, using the Playing 21 Program, to see what is right, and what is wrong. The game itself is made up of numerous individual mathematically correct and incorrect decisions. The ultimate Blackjack player, without card counting, can only be defined as one who makes each and every decision correctly. Why make a wrong decision, when it can be avoided? That is not a logically sound practice, and you may as well be writing off your losses as taxable income with the Federal Government, because you are making huge charitable donations (There may be a technicality here, the Government states that the donation recipient has to be a reputable qualified organization—just our luck).
Let’s say you wanted to know if Doubling Down an 11 vs. the Dealers Face card was a good play. You are feeling a little pissed off, after finding out many splits were not what you thought. So now, you want to check out one of these Doubling hands.
You could set up Player #1 to Double Down each time they get a Hard 11 vs. a Face, Player #2 could Hit, Player #3 could Stand (what the hell), Player #4 could Double for Less (any amount you choose actually) and now lets run a million hands.
The Playing 21 Program has a great feature, clearly making it the best Blackjack program ever made (well we haven’t seen the ones the casinos supposedly made, so we should stress, OFFERED FOR SALE). We call this the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealers Up Card. It just makes sense. How can we improve and become the ultimate player, if we don’t know where to improve? I can tell you that you are winning 49% of the time, but how can you ever achieve higher results if you do not know where you may be making mistakes, which hands could be played better, and which hands are being played correct already.
Each time we get any hand, in this case the Hard 11 vs. specifically the Face, how did we do? The answer is stored in the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealers Up Card, for each player, and also, at 21 different counts just in case you wanted to see if at some point, it becomes a better play to change the hand based on the way you want to count. So now it is a simple comparison. After the test, compare the different players’ hands. Isn’t that simple?
You now know, for certain, how to play this hand every single time you get it. With the Playing 21 Program, you can have that answer for every single hand, at every single count, and under every single possible circumstance.
Key is Wager Frequency
It is very important you understand this, or just buy the Playing 21 Program and compare results. We will try and make this understandable, so bare with us. If you get a hand 100 times, if we do not Split or Double this hand, we only have 100 Wagers to think about. Now let’s say we did Double it… well we still only had the hand 100 times, but now have 200 wagers in play—Wager Frequency.
Simple Example:
| Wager Frequency for Player’s Hand Y (Receiving this hand 100 times) |
| Hand |
Decision |
Won |
Lost |
Pushed |
Calculations |
Net Wagers |
| Y |
Hit |
55 |
37 |
8 |
55-37=18 |
18 |
| Y |
Doubled |
52 |
40 |
8 |
52-40*2=24 |
24 |
This is unbelievable stuff here, folks. We can simply see from the above example what Wager Frequency does to Splits and Doubles. In this example, we won more often when we hit. We ran the risk of busting on the Hit hand sometimes. Other times when we did double, we caught a bad card, but won when the dealer busted. All of that is factored in and Mathematics doesn’t lie. You will be able to see how each hand either makes or loses money for you. You will be shocked.
You must remember, Wager is more important than win. It is just fact. By splitting or
doubling down you are at least doubling the wagers. We only had this hand 100 times in our example, and by hitting we won 18 wagers, a good hand to hit. Now by doubling it, we won less often, (and so lost more hands), but each time was for 2 wagers instead of one. So in the end, we won 24 wagers as compared with 18. Hand “Y” must be doubled.
What you will do is compare your results in the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealer Up Card for all the hands. You will be very shocked, time and time again, at what you find. We hope you are as pissed off as we are. What has occurred is unacceptable. We have been duped. Intentionally or not, we have still been mislead. The trust is gone, and it is gone forever.
