Knowledge of the Blackjack game

I think even a fourth grader can figure out the meaning of that title. Since I am not taking to fourth graders, but people who gamble without knowing everything there is to know about blackjack, perhaps I should explain its meaning.

Nollige of the game doesn't mean you gotta know how to spell it, but you must be a perfect blackjack player. That means, in this case, you should know all of the moves in blackjack, as to when to hit, double, split, stand, or surrender your hand. In blackjack, these moves are called basic strategy. That again means a basic and simple key to instruct the player exactly what to do in each and every situation of his cards vs. the dealer's up card.

These basic blackjack strategy moves came into being many years ago, when people started getting interested in the tables in Las Vegas. In the late 1950s and early '60s, when computers were starting to make their appearance on the scene, the math people of our existence ran millions of specific hands vs. the dealer's up card, to arrive at a percentage in favor of what to do in each situation.

Since all of our moves are keyed off our initial decisions, when we receive our first two cards vs. the dealer's up card, the process is called basic strategy. Then, as each card is dealt, we make our subsequent moves, based on these computer runs that offer the information for our benefit or is it? To begin the game, we place a chip in the space provided in front of us. The dealer then deals out the cards until each of the players has two cards and the dealer has one card face down and one card (that we can see) face up. This up card is the only card we can see, so we make our decisions to hit, stand, and soon, vs. the only card we can see.

The move we make is what is called basic strategy, but then again I already said that. What I didn't say is that there could be thirteen different cards that the dealer could expose: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King. The six cards considered power cards are the 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace. Don't worry, you'll know why these are so designated when you get deep into blackjack. In the hands of the dealer, they are very, very powerful. Trust me, you don't wanna see them turn up as the up card.

The next two cards are the 7 and the 8. The 8 is a touchy middle of the road stinker. The dealer ain't exactly powerful starting with this card, but he ain't exactly walking barefoot on glass. Respect the 8 to an extent but don't put it in the same class as the six power cards.

The 7 is a weak card in comparison with the others mentioned, but when you are looking at the dealer's up card, and it is a 7 and you are sitting with a lousy breaking hand of 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 you gotta respect it. When the dealer shows as the up card a 7 through Ace, he or she is considered to be in a standing position. The down card could put the dealer's total at 17 through 21, meaning he or she doesn't have to take a hit.