Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Surrender can really help you
Surrender can really help you save some loonies and toonies, if you’re wise. But, think carefully. If you lose 75% of the time and win only 25% of the time, your net loss is about 50%... which is the SAME AS IF YOU SURRENDER EACH PLAY. So by all means use it, but use it wisely.
In the face-up shoe game
In the face-up shoe game you indicate you want another card by tapping behind your cards with your finger i.e. hitting. And you indicate that you want to stand by waving your hand over your cards in a horizontal motion. This eliminates confusion and also allows the ever-present surveillance cameras to keep a watchful lens on how the game unfolds. If you go over 21 and you bust, the dealer will collect your bet and remove your cards immediately.