JulieCA said:
If I just wanted to have fun, I'd go out with my girlfriends.
This is about dominating the game. I'm not interested in putting money up to play a game where the house advantage is over 3%, as it is in Let 'Em Ride. I started playing BJ for fun with my friends - but I wasn't going to keep playing it and plunking money down on the table willynilly just for fun.
When it comes to money, I'm extremely competitive.
Just another opinion.
Absolutely no math skills are necessary, except, perhaps, adding and subtracting "1" from a whole number.
Forget that "7+5" on your fingers if, by that, you meant counting the value of your first 2 cards.
First of all, you can either ask the dealer what your hand total is or use as much time as you need with your fingers as the dealer is paralyzed until you tell him what you want him to do.
Just use a BS card in the meantime if you must play for real money. Plenty of free softwares out there to measure the accuracy of your chosen counting system while costing you nothing.
Of course your husband can probably count, in your opinion, if he chose too, which, apparently, for some reason, likely borne out of insecurity and ignorance, he doesn't choose to, while, apparently playing BJ and laughing at your finger counting or something.
The game is not measured by who wins the most money.
No matter what your attiitude or skill level may be, Lady Luck will always do her thing.
If you don't think that, maybe, going out with your girlfriends, say, in Atlantic City at an 8D full table, while flat-betting $10 every hand at a full table, where that "EV" stuff you may not fully understand yet (although if you can multiply you can understand it) would say you and your girlfriends are expected to lose $3/hr.
That's really cheap fun.
How much would you spend in 3 hours doing something else with your girlfriends?
Did I mention drinks are free in Atlantic City?
Do what I do - make sure you drink at least $6 of the wholesale cost of alcohol/hr and it's cheaper than drinking in your room lmao.
Stick with beer because they can't dilute it a Corona. Mixed drinks are beyond pathetic they are so watered down.
Have you any opinion yet as to whether your husband can even play perfect Basic Strategy?