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DVD Review - Beating Blackjack with Andy Bloch
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Beating Blackjack with Andy Bloch will give you solid tips and strategies that will make you a winning blackjack player in no time. |
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Andy Bloch. These days, you may know him best for playing poker. Andy is a talented pro who also runs the WPT Fan web site. He plays for FullTiltPoker.net too! What you may not know is that Andy was once the manager of the MIT Blackjack team. He earned an engineering degree from MIT and a law degree from Harvard too.
Basically, Andy is an expert on blackjack. Hes earned millions - and only he knows for sure how much hes earned - playing the game. He understands the ins and outs and the math of blackjack. And blackjack is a mathematical game. In this DVD, Andy assumes you know the basic rules of the game. He doesn"t delve into them, so we won"t delve into them here either.
Andys DVD gets into the meat and potatoes of the game so that you can bring in some serious bread. In the first section, Basic Strategy, Andy teaches you when to hit, stay, double-down, split or surrender. The DVD comes with a handy-dandy chart that will help you out.
In the DVD Andy says that, by just following the basic strategy tips, you can save $400.00. You wont be a winning blackjack player yet, but you will lose a whole lot less than the average blackjack player does.
Basically what you need to remember is that blackjack is beatable largely because the cards arent shuffled every hand. You can vary your bets with information you gather from a simple mathematical formula that"s based on your card count!
Card counting is perfectly legal, as Andy says. Its a strategy albeit one that casinos arent fond of. That leads us to the second section of the DVD. In card counting, you track the relationship between the high-value cards, which are good for you, and the low-value cards, which are good for the house. Andy says you dont have to be a genius to card count (or have an MIT degree, either!).
The preferred method of counting for the MIT team is a hi-lo method. Cards with face values of 2-6 have a +1 value, 10-A are -1 and 7-8-9 are neutral, so theyre worth 0. The card counting must begin at the beginning of a six-deck shoe (card container).
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