blackjack

I'd be interested to hear what members here feel about Crown Casino's in Melbourne, Australia, recent rule change on their low-stake Blackjack tables making it now a game of 22 instead of 21, arguably. Of course, the rule change makes it more advantageous to the House! What else?!

Derren Brown wins at a casino here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqiiYYmJNKQ I'm not convinced I understand why he took a card when he had 16 against the dealer's 6, when there were a lot of cards left in the shoe Did he know what the next card was going to be? or was the whole thing...

I recently came across a gambling comunist who said that he believes that players counting cards in not unethical, but dealers counting cards are. For those not familiar with the practice, in the game known as 21 (or blackjack) a skillful player can keep track of the cards previously played...

If the table limit was infinite and a person had enough money to gamble with wouldn't blackjack be a sure thing with the 2:3 payout of each black jack. For example, a person can keep doubling their bets with each loss and on every blackjack they set the extra money aside and continue doubling...

I was talking with my father who reads lots of books on math, and he came up on a book written by some MIT mathematicians. Anyway, five or six of them would all crowd up on one black jack table and would all bet, and stay pat. The probability of one player drawing at least an 18-20 is very...