a blackjack question
In my state, casino gambling is not legal. However, charities can and frequently do sponsor legal "casino nights". One of the games offered at these is a variant of blackjack.
The cards are dealt from a 6-deck shoe and the dealer deals through about 4 decks before reshuffling. There are certain advantages for the players: the dealers are quite bad and may make errors in paying/collecting chips (they may also flash their hole card, though I'm not sure I could take advantage of this), and the house is very unlikely to notice either basic strategy or counting. Thus, the player can press every advantage without worrying about heat from the pit.
The downside is that the rules stipulate that in the event of a push on 17, the dealer wins.
Given a simple high low count such as you described in Sklansky Talks Blackjack, and given perfect play as dictated by basic strategy modified by the count, is it possible to beat this game? Would particularly favorable rules make it beatable? Or is this out of theoretical reach regardless of the rest of the rules?
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01-08-2007, 08:15 PM
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