NYB said:Theres a time and a place to stay on Ace-5.
rdorange said:When? and why? :confused:
learningtocount said:I saw a lady splitting tens against a dealer ten this is an extremely stupid mistake that I saw that cost the player as much as 55% of her bet on the average!!! That is a huge no no!
learningtocount said:The lady that split her tens against my ten ended up losing both bets instead of winning one bet. The worst possible result you could get for splitting tens. The game actually punished the bad play.
learningtocount said:I saw somebody split two fives at first I thought that he was trying to double so i said you want to double down right and he said no I want to split. The next mistake that I saw was somebody doubled down when they had 5 they had a zero percent chance of making a hand of 17 or better.
learningtocount said:I have only seen 2 players out of a 1000 do it but it has got to be the most horrific play I have ever seen!!! Two 5's is good double down hand!!! the result of splitting two 5's is you get 2 bad hands from one hand that has a chance to be an above average hand!!! Doubling is allowed on 10 so it does not make any sense!!!
learningtocount said:With 2 5's hitting is better play than splitting them!!! I hate 17 is a dumb as rock when it comes to playing blackjack!!! Only smart people can constinatly win at blackjack because it is a game of skill!!!
Bojack1 said:Not only is that not a particularly nice thing to say about ihate17, its not at all true. As a matter of fact I'd be willing to bet that just about everyone on this board would disagree with you on that one. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with all your posts learningtocount, but helping people learn about blackjack is not it. Most of the time you're flat out wrong, and the times you aren't its about things that are so blatantly obvious it rarely needs to be stated. Let alone with 3 exclamation points. I very rarely see the point to directly respond to your posts but I think you need to get some more playing experience and start asking questions instead of blurting out ridiculous statements. And I also believe insulting people that don't agree with you isn't showing very much class. Please wisen up before your next post.
learningtocount said:With 2 5's hitting is better play than splitting them!!! I hate 17 is a dumb as rock when it comes to playing blackjack!!! Only smart people can constinatly win at blackjack because it is a game of skill!!!
NYB said:The bottom line is that you can't really judge another players game sometimes.
What looks like a stupid departure from BS may well be just that,or it may be that the player has seen the next card,or it can be several other factors that you just don't know about.
As the others play doesn't affect you,just let it go.Hi-5 the guy after he doubles his 15 against the 10 and wins.Console him when he loses it.
There is no reason to be involved in other players hands unless you are trying to buy some of their splits.
FunkyChicken said:On the other hand, sometimes you can judge another's play. I still don't say anything, but I have a good laugh.
I was playing recently when the player had an 11 against a 6. He hit, to the dismay of everyone at the table (besides me, who as noted previously, generally keeps his mouth shut), who were telling him to double. This was followed by the player having an 8 against a dealer's ace. He doubled.
It wasn't as if he had never played blackjack before either -- in talking with him, he had played blackjack for many, many years. Maybe he was psychic. Well, but not that time -- he left with pretty huge losses.
learningtocount said:Doubling hard 12 the player that did this did it two times and busted both times. Another really bad play that he made was doubling a hard 5 against a dealer 2 he has a 0% chance of making a hand between 17-21. Not to mention that the dealer only has a 35% chance of busting. I don't know what play is worse doubling 5 or doubling 12.
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