Recent content by Alan

Traynor makes a very good case! Winning and losing streaks are all in the mind. A streak in blackjack can only be proven mathematically and (in my limited experience) through card counting. To know that the deck is in the dealer's favour, hand after hand, and will continue to be so is proof that...

Thanks! Now I can feed that into the strategy trainer and practise up before spending my real money at Cascades :) I suppose that if they use CSMs, it's a little pressure off my mind. Otherwise I'll start to think that if I learn counting, I can increase my odds.

Thanks for the replies all. I think I'll just have to go and play a session or two and see how it goes. I'm expecting I will lose the money and it's just for entertainment. I'll also try the half/double thought. That seems like a good way to go, too. I read once that a method one person uses...

I could drive down the street to the Cascades casino here in Langley, BC, but I thought I'd post first to see if someone knew the blackjack rules here. Do they use CSMs there? And how bad are CSMs? Does it just make counting harder or does it increase the house edge over basic strategy too?

I'm relatively new to blackjack. I've only played in a casino once and it was a video blackjack (not a live dealer) and I'm wanting to slowly get into it more for recreation. I'm learning basic strategy right now but am not yet ready for counting - I'll wait until I get BS down first. I've...