Best Blackjack Game & Double Exposure

How many blackjack hands you play per hour is important.

Best Game

How much you can bet without attracting undue attention is important. How much bet variation you can get away with is important.
Though some books recommend playing half an hour or 40 minutes and then leaving the casino, you probably are better off finding a casino with good conditions and then playing there for several hours. Play blackjack only the very best games, meaning the games where you think your time is worth the most per hour.

If all the casinos you can reach easily have lousy blackjack conditions, then save your money for a trip to Las Vegas. That fabulous city has more than 60 casinos competing with one another for your business, and bargains always abound.

Double Exposure

Do not ignore double-exposure blackjack. You may not play double exposure often enough to be able to keep the strategy numbers in your head, and much of the strategy is non-obvious.

Take a blackjack book with you if you travel to casinos because you will want to be able to play correctly should you stumble upon a good game.

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Here is an example. I was wandering through High Sierra at Stateline, Nevada, at 9 PM and came upon a double-exposure game that had not been there earlier in the day. I stopped, checked it out, discovered that naturals paid 3:2, and decided it was worth playing. So I ran back to my motel room, got out my book with double-exposure strategy, and spent half an hour memorizing basic blackjack strategy and the most important decision numbers. Then I returned to the High Sierra to play double exposure.

Occasionally you can find a double exposure game where you have an edge right after the shuffle. Every time this has happened in the past, the reason for your edge was naturals paid 3:2. This probably is a general rule: If naturals pay 3:2 at double exposure, the game is worth playing; and if naturals pay even money, the game is not worth the effort of relearning double exposure strategy. The difference between 3:2 and even money on naturals is at least 2.3%, so you can see why this rule can make the difference between worthwhile and not worthwhile.

If you find a good double-exposure game, it might be so good that you can justify staying and playing through conditions that would cause you to abandon a normal blackjack game. When High Sierra introduced its liberal double exposure, I changed my plane reservation to stay an extra day. That night I played blackjack until 4 AM, which is way past my normal bed time. (I am a morning person.) I was getting very sleepy, and finally left when a new player came in and slowed the game way down.

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