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increase bets when you're ahead I think a better strategy is to increase your bets when you're ahead. Say you start with $200 and you're betting $10 a hand. If you get up to, say, $300, increase bets to $15. If you get up to $400, increase to $20. If you slip down to $300, pull back down to $15...

still doesn't seem right Thanks for the reply. I have been following this basic strategy (and will continue to do so). It just doesn't make sense intuitively. If you have a soft 14, you have removed a 3 from the deck. With a soft 15, you have removed a 4. Therefore, the dealer would have a...

Can anyone explain why basic strategy dictates doubling a soft 14 on the dealer upcards 5 and 6 while the strategy for doubling soft 15 is dealer upcards 4, 5 and 6? The player has 5 possible cards to make a hand of 17-21 in either scenario. Shouldn't the rule be either double on the dealer's...