Will The Real House Edge Please Stand Up, or David Who?
Sorry... I'm just me. Not knowing who David Pom is, I'm not sure if this is a compliment or insult, but either way, I still don't understand what GeorgeD, or Cardcounter0 are talking about. Of course I realize that the house will always have an edge. I may be relatively new to the game, but I am not stupid. What I can't figure out is that this should only mean that the house will win MOST of the time, not ALL of the time, unless that edge is ridiculously high, which, of course it isn't SUPPOSED to be. What I have seen (over the course of the last few years) are dealers not busting on 4's, 5's, or 6's nearly as often as they should, while beating 19's with 20's, 20's with 21's, and even pushing blackjacks FAR more ofen than simple statistical probability (even with the house edge) should allow, and I'm not the only one who believes this. To paraphrase, Me thinks there is most definately something rotten in the state of Denmark, and it ISN't our ability to play the game! None of us expect to get rich, or believe that blackjack is an easy game to beat. So stop talking down to us. All we want is a fair game (which seems to be getting harder and harder to find) or an advantage over whatever deviousness seems to be afoot.