Blackjack: +EV game?
 

Is blackjack a + or - EV game while playing perfectly? (Assume no card counting). This has to be the most amateur blackjack question ever asked, but I'm a poker player.

Re: Blackjack: +EV game?
 

perfect strategy leads to minus a half percent or so depending on the rules.

Melch

Re: Blackjack: +EV game?
 

Minus, barely.

Re: Blackjack: +EV game?
 

I don't know. Call me a heathen or whatever. But if Blackjack is a -EV game when played perfectly...then...um...why play it?

Again i am open to insults.

Re: Blackjack: +EV game?
 

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I don't know. Call me a heathen or whatever. But if Blackjack is a -EV game when played perfectly...then...um...why play it?

Again i am open to insults.

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You'r right. Casinos should just shut down since no one will ever want to play a -EV game.

Re: Blackjack: +EV game?
 

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I don't know. Call me a heathen or whatever. But if Blackjack is a -EV game when played perfectly...then...um...why play it?

Again i am open to insults.

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Cause people have been told that it can be beaten

Re: Blackjack: +EV game?
 

It's not as -EV as the other casino games. But it still is -EV.
Why for that matter do hundreds of thousands of people play all the other games of "chance"?
Some want to have fun and don't mind paying and others just don't understand the concept of EV at all.

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I don't know. Call me a heathen or whatever. But if Blackjack is a -EV game when played perfectly...then...um...why play it?

Again i am open to insults.

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Card counting in live casinos allows this game to become a +EV game.

Bonus whoring in online casinos allows this game to become a +EV game.

Melch

Re: Blackjack: +EV game?
 

The reason people play blackjack is because they can overcome the longterm house advantage in the shortterm. 4 percent is not a very large edge over any single hand. also, people tend to think that varying bet size will eliminate the house edge

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I don't know. Call me a heathen or whatever. But if Blackjack is a -EV game when played perfectly...then...um...why play it?

Again i am open to insults.

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Not insulting you but aren't most things you do in life either -EV or at least not as +EV as other things you could be doing? I mean going to the movies is certainly less EV then scrounging trash bins for aluminum cans but I can tell you which one I'd rather do.