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- Keep your emotions under
control. The dealer is only the messenger of fate. Don't
take you're losses out on him.
- Always remember you can
win. You didn't bring $100 to a casino to play with and
lose. If you are losing at a particular table, set a
three-losses-and-you-move routine.
- Focus on the dealer and
his up card, not your neighbor's cards. If other players at
the table are upsetting you with their playing strategies,
you can move.
- Drinking and gambling do
not mix. Players have been known to lose thousands waiting
for their free drink.
- You must have discipline,
so set loss limits and win goals.
- Only bet what you can
afford to lose. Rent, car payments and other day-to-day
expenses have no place in a casino.
- Even the small blackjack
player deserves to be rewarded for her play. There is
nothing wrong with asking for a free breakfast, lunch or
something smaller like a deck of cards or a pair of dice.
But since pit personnel are most likely not tracking your
play, you will need to ask.
- Most players don't even
consider the rules before they sit down and play. If you
don't know the rules or any of the playing strategies of
blackjack, learn the game on an internet blackjack site. A
five-dollar blackjack game should not be your classroom.
- When you feel tired, it's
time to call it quits, or at least take a break and rest for
an hour or two.
- Compared to a single deck,
a two-deck game handicaps your play -0.35%, four decks,
-0.48%, six decks, -0.54% and eight decks -0.58%. As you can
see, it is always to your advantage to play on a game that
offers the fewest decks. Also note, the house edge goes up
substantially when you go from one deck to two, but the
change is less dramatic as you add more decks. How much is
this costing you in dollars and cents? If you were to play
100 hands per hour at $5 per hand, each -0.1% would cost you
approximately 50ў per hour. Playing on a game with two decks
versus one deck will cost you $1.75 per hour, with each
additional deck costing you increasingly more.
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