Which player would win more:
A player who plays a million hands of blackjack by the book at a table by himself
OR
A player who plays a million hands of blackjack by the book at a table with an inexperienced player who does not play by the book?
Assume an eight deck shoe that shuffles after six decks.
doesnt matter but probaly the expeirenced one becuase he has well more plays and the odds are better by your self becuase its you against the dealer instead of you against ten stupid players lol
Yes.
One reason why is that an inexperienced player will sometimes hit when they should not. This applies when you are card counting near the end of the shoe and the deck is rich. If someone takes a hit they should not, then they may remove a ten count card that could cause a dealer bust. And they are speeding up the end of the shoe, reducing the amount of hands that could be played while the deck is rich.
If an 8 deck shoe is being shuffled after 6 decks, there still can be some opportunity there for a rich deck to develop.
This has actually happened to me more then once. The worst one was just after the movie 21 came out, I was at Harahs in LV at an 8 deck table where the dealer was cutting about as thick as he could. Just as a nicely rich deck developed, a couple guys sat down and started playing, doing all the crazy things they could – hitting on 14 against dealer 6, even splitting 10s. That sped up the deck two ways, by two new players, of course, and by hitting, reducing the number of hands left in the shoe.
It makes no difference. What Doverpro is saying is absolutely wrong, because by the same token a player could remove a low value card when the count in bad that will improve the deck. They could also stay on a hand they should be hitting when the count is good and not “ruin” a good count, when a proper move could have done just that. In the long run it all evens out.
As a side note if (and only if) you are counting cards, a table will less players is always better than a player with more players. This is because when the count gets good, you can see more hands before it goes bad again if there’s nobody else at the table taking cards.
since the dealer only needs one card to bust, the person playing just before the dealer (third base) is key.
i usually prefer to play third, and have saved the table far more times than i’ve hurt it. i’d say out of every 10 hands, i’ve positively influenced the outcome on about 80% of the hands. the other twenty percent, it’s been situations like my 13 vs dealer’s 12, and the next card is a 9, or I had a 20 and the dealer hit a 2 and a 10 to make 21.