Recent content by Allenfromasia

By the way, what are the differences between a typical U.S. game and a European No Hole Card game?

I have read a few bj books and I remember Stanford Wong advised in his "Professional blackjack" that "never take insurance", but what if I am place a 20 and the dealer is A? buying insurance will almost guarantee me half unit win (assuming I bet half of my original bet for insurance)? kind of...

Thanks, ken!

In macau, the casinos allow early surrender with only one exception: when the dealer shows a face card ace. Sounds interesting? Any guy out there who is good at bj math could advice how this exception may affect the house edge, compared to simply allowing early surrender in all conditions...

happy to hear there is casino in Korea anyway......Maybe will go someday

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Thanks for the sharing, Mike. I think people set their win limits for a reason. The situation is quite different when you count vs when you dont. When you count cards you simply wait for an acceptable count with which you could increase your bets to seize the largest profit. Before the count...

Hi all, I am quite new to blackjack and it was until recently that I started to search materials on the net. Fortunately I found this site which provides huge sourse of infos about almost all aspect of bj. Thanks to you all. The nearest town to where I live which has casinos is Macau...