Basic Strategy in Text. For the benefit of my blind readers, here is the above strategy in text form, when the dealer stands on soft 17 and surrender is allowed. To use the strategy, start at the top, and follow the first rule that applies. Surrender hard 16 (but not a pair of 8s) vs. Dealer 9, 10, or A, and hard 15 vs. Basic strategy does not overcome the casino’s house edge until we add card counting to the mix. If you are super geeky and simply MUST have a better explanation, check out Mike Shakleford’s video where he builds basic strategy from scratch using excel and watch his other video where he determines the house edge the same way. Basic Blackjack Strategy. The first step towards learning to play blackjack and winning is to learn basic blackjack strategy. Basic strategy helps in another big way: it could help bring the house edge down to 0.5% or even lower! Of course this happens with dependencies – the number of card decks, the table rules for the game, and so on. Unlike basic, universal blackjack strategies or basic strategy, betting systems are constructed more out of following patterns rather basing moves on mathematical probability. Before we examine the.

1. Spanish 21 Basic Strategy Chart
2. Spanish 21 Basic Strategy
3. Blackjack 21 Basic Strategy

Basic Strategy - ENHC (European No Hole Card).

Below is the basic strategy chart for the most common Blackjack ruleset offered in UK casinos: 6 Deck, S17, DOA, DAS, RSA.
6 Deck (although this strategy chart is valid for 4 and 8 deck games),
S17 (dealer stands on ALL hands of 17),
DOA (double on anything, you may double down on any hand),
DAS (double after split - doubling down after splitting to two hands is allowed),
RSA (Resplit aces. Re-splitting of aces is allowed if you split two aces and you receive another ace on one or both of the hands).
This ruleset leaves the player playing at a 0.55% disadvantage (HE), assuming correct basic strategy is applied.

Spanish 21 Basic Strategy Chart

Spanish 21 Basic Strategy

Blackjack 21 Basic Strategy

You can also download this Basic Strategy chart in Microsoft® Word and Excel formats.