I don't think this went. My apologies if it did. Hey Fivespot, I think we
are talking apples/oranges here. With a five cards drawn and a hard total
of 16, Wong says to draw against 2 or 3; stand against 4,5, or 6; and hit
against 7, 8, 9, 10, or Ace.
Perhaps you are citing the Wizard of Odds strategy.
Rick
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:36 PM
To: vpFREE_Reno@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vpFREE_Reno] Re: Two Questions/Wong-Griffin
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Rick and Becky Groff <rbgroff@cableone.net <mailto:rbgroff%40cableone.net> > wrote:
Wong seems to be fairly accurate in most of his information and he doesn't
specify that there should be a different strategy for a single deck rather
than a multideck 6-card Charlie in his book Basic Blackjack. Therefore, I
doubt if the strategy is significantly different.
all of Wong's charts in Basic Blackjack are for multiple decks unless
otherwise specified. single deck is very different, especially when
many cards are visible, such as when you're considering hitting for a
sixth card.
take A,2,3,4,5 (15) vs. 6. in an infinite-deck game, your odds of
surviving a hit are 6/13 ~= 46%, while the dealer will only bust about
42% of the time if you stand, so you hit.
in a single-deck game, there are 46 unknown cards and only 18 of them
won't bust you, so your odds of surviving a hit are only 18/46 ~= 39%.
meanwhile, with such a ten-heavy deck, the dealer will bust almost 50%
of the time (actually 49.7%) if you stand. hitting is a huge mistake.
if you use Wong's multideck chart in a single deck game, you're going
to make a lot of huge mistakes.
best wishes,
five
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