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Old 03-15-2005, 02:29 PM
Toro Toro is offline
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Default Re: About the BJ Analogy

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Any ways the point I wanted to address is that the players at the BJ table cannot disrupt the flow of the cards by “playing wrong”. Each card coming out of the shoe or the top of the deck is a semi random occurrence. For example a bad BJ player in last position may deviate from basic strategy and hit a 17. That card may have hurt the dealer, and the next card makes the dealer a pat hand. It could also work visa versa; so don’t believe that bad players can have an effect on your win/loss rate. The only thing that can be certain is that the bad BJ player described above will lose his money faster than the –EV .5% that a perfect basic strategy player would have.

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I know very little about blackjack, just the basics. My boss, however, it's his game. Whenever he bitches about the bad players taking a card away, I tell him this very thing but he says I'm nuts. To me this is just commonsense. He's so paranoid about this that he leaves the table when there is a bad player.

P.S. On the QQ hand, I wouldn't beat myself up too much. You're read was that the guy could have any pair or any 2 high cards, so how could you fold. This is just one of those hands when i get it i say "It sucks being me right now", not much you can do unless you want to make a habit of folding queens preflop.
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