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.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
The second surprise (although hardly a surprise as the casinos can attest to) is that no matter what betting system one selects the probability of winning or losing over the long term in Blackjack remains the same. Even if one uses the truncated Martingale (I explain the truncated Martingale later), a no-no in all the books, this betting method has the same long term probabilities of win/lose as any other betting scheme
surprise? No! The third surprise is that the analysis turns out to be quite simple and can be performed by almost anyone with pencil and paper but the use of a spreadsheet computer program can be very helpful and is recommended (this author uses Quattro