Re: Blackjack: +EV game?
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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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To the OP: It is the law of large numbers that states that eventually you must acheive your EV. There is a lot of debate as to how large the number is. Even the casinos sweat a bad month. I used to count BJ every weekend, now I play maybe a dozen sessions a year. Fewer sessions for craps. So, I will gleefully belly up to these -EV games, because it's all in the standard deviation for me.
I wouldn't touch a slot, though. Those people are morans. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
(actually that's not entirely true. I like the lowbuy slot tourneys in Vegas, and have done well in them. I'm usually forty years younger than my average competition)
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