Anybody want to talk Blackjack?
Degen
2 months ago
If there’s a casino game I love it’s not slots, it’s Blackjack. I love the straight game, but at a minimum I insist on 3/2 payout for BJ, (no effing 6/5) and at least 2 of Available Surrender, Double After Split, Double on Soft Hands. The best BJ variant I remember was Wagerworks’s “Power Blackjack” where you could get a new card on a hard 9-11 double if you got a bad card and you could split any hard 15 or 16 as well as pairs all for the cost of pushing on a dealer 22. I’m also a fan of Gamesys’s 9UP Blackjack where you pay a 20% premiium, which you get back on a BJ, and are guaranteed your first card will be 9 or higher. Anybody else got any BJ opinions or favourite games?
When I play I just play a lotto style game and take advantage of any side bets, gives me more of a thrill than an extended drawn out blackjack session.
I'm also not very good at changing my stake, if i start at £10 a hand I find it hard to increase or decrease my stake ever and I think to have a really good run in BJ you probably need to be aggressive with your bets.
Or the "One Blackjack" tables theres people that minbet and max out their time, hit and hit again until they bust even if they have 17+ just to wind the other players up and slow the game down. Like it might cost them 20c in their currency but they make a hand take 90-120seconds or longer if they can split too.
Online blackjack tilts me because theres always some idiot who hits/splits etc when they shouldn't and you can't avoid them unless you pay a higher betsize for an exclusive table.Or the "One Blackjack" tables theres people that minbet and max out their time, hit and hit again until they bust even if they have 17+ just to wind the other players up and slow the game down. Like it might cost them 20c in their currency but they make a hand take 90-120seconds or longer if they can split too.
Yeah, it should even out, sometimes the stupid player hurts you and sometimes he helps you. Doesn't seem to though, in practice the stupid player almost always ruins the hand.
I normally play Blackjack in RNG mode though as that's where the better rulesets are and you can avoid other irritating players. You're not going to get Surrender, full dealer peek, double after split, double on soft hands and 7 card charlie all combined in a single Live game.
I never use sidebets (my Live game handle was once sidebetsareforsheep) :)