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
The dealer must
The dealer must follow the house rules. If he has a winning hand of 16, he must draw another card. Soft hands also dictate a certain type of behaviour as an Ace that has a value of 11 that can be changed to 1. The basic strategy with a soft hand is to double down when the dealer has a high probability of busting.
Never split a pair
Never split a pair of 5s or 10s. Two 10s gives you a 20 and two 5s a 10. When holding a 10, you shouldn’t split because the card you are most likely to draw in Blackjack is a 10 (think about it, there are four different cards with the value of 10), thus resulting in a 20. Armed, or handed one should say, with a 20, the probability of you winning is very high.