The Blackjack Auto-Play Glitch Conspiracy

[neotope]

What Blackjack games do you guys play? And what modifications do you make to the basic strategy. I have a strategy card from when I first started playing Blackjack that has served me pretty well.

[LondonBroil]

When you set up the auto-play feature, can you tell it to stop after a certain number of hands or do you have to check in every once in awhile to see how many you've played?

[fluff]

It has several stopping criterias, ie. x hands, $x won/lost, etc.

[spamuell]

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I would set it to the minimum bet/hand possible ($1) so that it conforms as closely as possible to the expected loss.


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I'm not sure about this but I think it's better to bet more, so you clear the bonus making less wagers, which reduces the casino's edge.

[Styles]

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What Blackjack games do you guys play? And what modifications do you make to the basic strategy. I have a strategy card from when I first started playing Blackjack that has served me pretty well.



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vegas strip and you set it to the strategy available at wizardofodds.com

[mosch]

Increasing your bet size increases your variance (and risk of ruin) significantly. It doesn't kill the house edge.

Take a promotion where you deposit $50, get a $200 bonus, and are required to play both 10x to cash out. If you play a strategy that has a 0.40% house advantage, your expectation is to cash out $240 on $2500 of bets. It doesn't matter if you place 10000 $0.25 bets or 25 $100 bets.

If you make $0.25 bets, the 67% probability range has cashouts from between $213 and $268, with the 95% probability range having cashouts between $290 and $190. This is because you're coming a lot closer to "the long run", so short-term variance has little effect.

With $100 bets, that 67% probability range now contains cashouts between busting out, and $790, and the 95% contains cashouts between $1,240 and absolutely nothing. You're more likely to get a large win with these large bets, but you're also far more likely to get absolutely nothing.

[fluff]

I've read a reputable poster here claim this, but I don't understand. I mean house advantage stays the same whether you bet $1/hand or $10/hand. For instance if the play through requirement is $1000, and the house advantage is 0.5% then you can play 1000 hands of $1, "paying" 5 cents per hand, or 100 $10 hands, "paying" $0.5 per hand in house edge. Both have an expected loss of $50 at the end of the deal.

Now suppose you have a $100 bank roll (or bonus), the risk of ruin for the first method is about 1%, the second method is about 35%.

[Malone Brown]

how often can you take advantage of these bonuses? Is it a one time sign-up thing?

[Adde]

For Viper autoplay casinos, play Vegas Strip Blackjack for best odds (house edge 0.3606%), and do the following changes to the strategy:

66 vs 7: SPLIT -> HIT
77 vs 8: SPLIT -> HIT
A7 vs 4-6: DOUBLE else HIT -> DOUBLE else STAND

5 changes in total.

Also, set the speed to max, and number of seconds between deals to zero.

Don't forget to check the stats before you leave the game. Multiply numof hands by bet size and 1.1 (you play more than one bet about 10% - doubles and splits) to get a grip of how much you have wagered.

Split up the play to several days, and also throw in some other small house edge games(Jacks or Better video poker, etc) in between to mix up your play if you are afraid of being banned from other casinos in the same network (for being a bonus whore). If you play video poker by hand (instead of autplaying it), make sure to turn of "Allow double" in the options.

Also, make sure to ask the casino to remove those pescy 10% NETeller bonuses. They often are only $5 or $10, but will add way more to your wager requirement. Never start to play before you have got your bonus or got rid of any unwanted bonuses. Use Playcheck to check what kind of bonuses you got (45 minutes delay though).

Also, make sure to read the T&C again when you have got the bonus and are about to begin playing. It happened to me just today that Platinum Play (as well as all Fortune casinos) changed the T&C dramatically (only 20% blackjack allowed to clear a bonus) from when I got the bonus until I started to play. A good idea is to save the T&C when you deposit, so you might have some hard copy to show the casino when they have their bull whip land on your back at cashout time.

Enough rambling, what was your question again? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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[Adde]

how often can you take advantage of these bonuses? Is it a one time sign-up thing?

Most good bonuses are one-time signups. Some casinos have good monthly bonuses (Cryptologic). 32Red also has a $32/£32 monthly thing, and I also got a 50% max £75 bonus by email after I cashed out my signup bonus winnings.