Saturday, October 24, 2009

Online Blackjack Strategy

By Mark Watson

Today I am going to speak about playing blackjack online and whether or not you would be able to count cards. Online blackjack is very popular and most casinos offer a wide variety of versions of it.

Now when you play blackjack in a land based casino you can count cards because the cards are coming out of a deck or a shoe. This means once a card has come out of the deck it can't come out again until the deck has been emptied and the cards reshuffled.

The way counting cards works is you keep track of how many low number cards (6 or lower) have come out of the deck and how many high cards have come out.

The way that the advantage is with the player in card counting is when there more high cards have still not been drawn. This method has been implemented all over the world and worked in many people's favour; some have won huge amounts by doing this.

However, this system will not work when playing online blackjack for the simple reason that you are playing against a computer program.

What this means is that the cards are just being randomly generated by the casinos software, there is no deck involved. Therefore if you get a card there is every chance that the same card could come up again sooner than what it would if you were playing blackjack for real.

Therefore it is fair to say that counting cards would not work online. A lot of nave players however believe that they can count cards online and that this would save them the inconvenience of physically going into a casino and they only end up paying the price with their losses.

Your best chance of winning money from online blackjack is to apply perfect blackjack strategy and then use a mild progressive system when you lose therefore putting the odds in your favour as much as possible.

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