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Master blackjack, from your first hand to card counting

Strategy Engine Strategy Trainer Blackjack School

BlackjackInfo has taught players to beat the game since 1998. Free rule-based strategy charts, an interactive trainer, a 24-lesson course, and honest reviews of where to play online, all in one place.

  • Free, no sign-up to learn
  • Math-verified strategy
Wherever you're starting

Find your path

Three ways in, whether you have never held a hand or you're chasing a mathematical edge.

New to the game

Learn how to play

Understand the table, the hand values and the decisions before you risk a chip.

  • The rules of blackjack
  • What "basic strategy" means
  • Hit, stand, double & split
Start with the rules Improving

Sharpen your game

Play near-perfect strategy, then learn to turn the odds in your favour.

  • Rule-specific strategy charts
  • Drill hands in the trainer
  • Card counting, explained
Open the strategy engine Advanced

Master card counting

Learn the skill that can turn the long-run odds in your favour, explained one clear step at a time.

  • How counting actually works
  • Running count & true count
  • Judge when a game is beatable
Learn to count cards
Free tool The BlackjackInfo Strategy Engine showing colour-coded hard, soft and pairs basic-strategy charts
Blackjack Strategy Engine

The exact chart for the game in front of you

Correct basic strategy cuts the house edge to around 0.5%, roughly five times better than playing on instinct. But every house rule changes the right play, so tell the engine your decks, dealer rules and options: it instantly draws the mathematically optimal hard, soft and pairs charts, plus the exact edge you're facing. It's the same engine players have trusted since 1998.

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Interactive The interactive BlackjackInfo Strategy Trainer coaching a live hand of blackjack
Blackjack Strategy Trainer

Learn by playing, not by memorising

Deal real hands against the trainer and it coaches you in real time: make the wrong move and it shows you the right one and why. Track your accuracy, spot your recurring mistakes, and set it to the exact rules you play. Free, and built for your phone as much as your desktop.

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The free 24-lesson course

Blackjack School

The complete course that built this site's reputation, taking you from the very basics of the rules all the way to advanced card counting and single-deck play. Work through it at your own pace, for free.

  • Understand basic strategy cold
  • Learn to count cards, step by step
  • Manage your bankroll and swings
  • Judge when a game is actually beatable
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Taught by professionals

Ken Smith
Ken Smith Founder · Tournament specialist

Kenneth R. Smith founded BlackjackInfo in 1998. A tournament player since 1994, he has competed in thousands of events and also runs BlackjackTournaments.com.

 The GameMaster
The GameMaster Author of the Blackjack School

Bill Channels, a winning gambler who has run gambling sites since the earliest days of the web (1997), wrote our free 24-lesson Blackjack School.

 LV Bear
LV Bear Advantage player · Instructor

A card counter and advantage player since the mid-1990s, first inspired by Ed Thorp's Beat the Dealer, and a long-standing voice in the community.
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Take perfect strategy to the table

Prefer something you can hold? Our wallet-size strategy cards carry perfect basic strategy for every common rule set, and the advanced set prints card-counting indexes right on the card. The tangible companion to the free engine and trainer, for when your phone stays in your pocket.

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Online blackjack, the honest version

You can't count cards against an online RNG, but live-dealer tables come close and free games let you practise risk-free. Here's what to know before you play, and who to call if a casino does you wrong.

How online blackjack really works

Whether it's legal where you are, how live dealer differs from RNG tables, the rules that quietly cost you, and where to practise for free.

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Decades of answers in the forum

A treasure trove of blackjack know-how, free to read and search. Industry professionals and long-time advantage players still answer questions there every week.

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