Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
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Blackjack: Determining the “Winning” Ability of Your Betting System.
Blackjack: Determining the “Winning” Ability of Your Betting System. The first surprise is that a betting system can be mathematically analyzed and then compared to others analyzed in the same manner to determine their potential worth. None of the books on Blackjack that this author has read provides this capability. Consequently, every author who wrote about his/her favorite betting system has no theoretical idea how his/her system stacks up to another author’s system or whether his/her system is really a good one or not. This booklet provides a sound mathematical basis for the analysis of betting systems that this author believes has never been provided before!
The second surprise (although hardly a surprise as the casinos can attest to) is that no
The second surprise (although hardly a surprise as the casinos can attest to) is that no matter what betting system one selects the probability of winning or losing over the long term in Blackjack remains the same. Even if one uses the truncated Martingale (I explain the truncated Martingale later), a no-no in all the books, this betting method has the same long term probabilities of win/lose as any other betting scheme