Introduction to Blackjack Strategy

I already explained to you what basic blackjack strategy is, and how the decisions of whether to hit or stand or double or split were based on millions of simulated computer decisions. Whoopee!! Nothing like a computer run telling the way a logical decision will do even better.

My friend Ross D. Streit has to cross a lot of streets on his way to his office. Most of them are pretty busy streets and cars are constantly whizzing by. He decided to run a simulation of when to cross this particular intersection, to get an idea of when things were safest.

He entered into the computer every single solitary piece of data about that street comer over the past twenty two years. It included the total number of cars and trucks that went past, the speed of each, how many accidents occurred, and the weather on the day of the hazards.

After three million runs on his computer, it was determined that the best time to cross the street was 8 A.M. on a Tuesday, but only if it was snowing. Of all the luck. Ross D. Streit couldn't be happier. Today was Tuesday, he would be getting to that spot precisely at 8 A.m. and the snow was coming down in large flakes.

No car or truck was involved in any accident under those conditions in the twenty two years he ran his computer check. He rushed to the spot, checked his watch, and it was exactly 8 A.M. Ross D. Streit stepped off the curb and was run over by a snow plow. Tough luck. The computer forgot to tell him that this was a definite hazard.

That is my complaint with computer runs. The decision they give out on these blackjack hands are based on what could happen over the course of 159 plus years. I don't care what's gonna happen down the road. I wanna know what is the best move to make in the exact fraction of an instant that I am confronted with these situations.