Hand Breakdown’s Significance
“As Another Book Rolls Of The Presses”

Finally, Some Closure

If it appears kind of “Logical”, well we have always admitted to loving logic anyhow. Although we loved football, we were not NFLers. Although we loved hockey, we were not ex-NHLers. Although we loved Blackjack, we were not mathematicians. We did know that, logically, a 3rd and 12 might be a good QB1 pass call. We did logically know that Forsberg was a great first overall pick in our hockey pool. We logically knew that if all else was equal, there could only be one most correct way to play each hand at Blackjack. We are the first to admit that we are not professionals at football, hockey (well, Oz isn’t anyway), or Blackjack, but did that make us wrong in our decisions, or our logic?

We knew, before we started this three-year project, that there was a set of answers waiting for someone to find. We were convinced that they had not been found as of yet. If they had been found, why were more “cookie-cutter” books being released, barely bothering to alter the slightest little piece of info from the previous book? If there was something so concrete, why did we even have thoughts of making this program, when we could be playing QB1, spending additional time on our draft lists, or going to the casinos and playing Blackjack? The reasons were very clear. Blackjack wasn’t clear at all.

Letting The Mud Settle

We knew the answers where sitting there. It was like someone placed all the correct plays at the bottom of a pail, poured in water and then dirt. Now they just kept stirring the water with a stick. No matter how hard we tried, we could never see through all the murkiness. No one stopped stirring long enough to allow the mud to settle. Thinking about it now, even if they had, when we looked through the water, the dirt would have covered those answers anyhow. That is what we were up against. We didn’t have a clue who was right or who was wrong, but many people were stirring the pot.

We knew we had to start over. We had to get away from the norm, start fresh, with our own pail and water. We left the dirt out in the backyard for Bob and Tom to play with in the sandbox. Our pail would be so clear that no one could argue it by stirring it ever again.

Screen Shots of the Top of the HBD, Finding Any Hand
(These do not show all counts across)

What We Did

Inventing the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealer Up Card allowed us to finally crack open the game Blackjack. We tracked each and every single starting hand you received in the game, the Dealer’s Up Card, and stored this information, each time it occurred, in its very own area. We allowed you to Count Cards in over 25 billion different ways. We allowed you to set up any House Rules, Number of Decks and many other very important factors, covering them all. Now we allowed each player to play any hand any way they wanted, and at any count of the cards. We forced nothing upon any player.

Now each time the same hand was received, it was stored in this same location, slotted into what the Bet Count was at the start of the hand. You could play millions of hands now, and we’d separate everything for future analysis. Not only did we separate each hand into it’s own category at different counts, we further broke this down to 45 different categories, for each and every hand.

Screen Shots of The 45 Different Categories For Each Hand

Pair Of 4’s vs. The Dealer’s 5

It didn’t matter how you set up the game, how you played that hand, or how you counted cards, there was your answer. We simply show it all to you. There is no more taking another’s word for anything. There is no real reason to write another book about Blackjack, but we are sure some will try. It’s ok because now you can easily simulate what they say in their book, and prove if they are right. Anyone who is planning on writing a book might like to prove his results with the Playing 21 Program first.

That is the importance of the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealers Up Card. All the answers! If you were unsure how to play a hand, say a pair of 4's vs. the Dealer's 5, now you are just 3 mouse clicks away from seeing how you did. Set up different players to play the same hand differently and wham, there you go, all the answers are right before your eyes.

We take pride in our program and that fact that we cracked this game wide open. We did all our own work. We were never clouded or intimidated by anyone. The answers are as they should be, very clear. We plan to help more though. For those who have bought the Playing 21 Program, we will continue to show you what we learn, right here in this site. You will be the best Blackjack player in the world, as will all those who own the program.

Please read through the site, seeing examples of all the important things the Playing 21 Program can do for you. That is the reason it was made, for you, the player. Don’t go out to the casino and lose again, and then come back here, bookmark us now and learn the game. Better yet, purchase the program, and all the answers. Becoming a winner. $50 is a small price to pay for that kind of satisfaction.

Screen Shots of Top and Bottom of the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealer Up Card
(These do not show all counts across)