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My story: I'm in the last seat, and I get A3 vs 6. The count is super-bad, so I don't double. I hit and get a ten, and I stand on 14. Dealer has 16, catches a perfect card and beats everybody. It happens, especially when the count is bad.

Old Asian guy starts yelling at me for taking the dealer's "bust" card.

"I had a four!", I protested.

He didn't want to hear it. He simply repeated his opinion that I cost the whole table money.

"You're saying I should've stood with a four?"

Now it was funny, because he wanted to be mad at me, but couldn't bring himself to say, "Yes, you should stand with a four." Instead of yelling at me, and he turned his back to me, and grumbled ABOUT me to the other players.

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An awful lot of posts in this thread about "always double on this" and "never double on that", and none of them mention THE COUNT.

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doubling 7 on ANY dealer upcard using ANY number of decks is not profitable. a starting hand of hard 7 in any blackjack game is extremely marginal, and doubling (regardless of upcard or table conditions) would be solidly -EV in the long run.

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How about a single deck game, about halfway through the deck, and count of about +20? We know that every card left in the deck is a ten or an ace. "Solidly -EV in the long run"???