Fred Renzey was hired to do a four-session seminar about blackjack. As usual, the hurdle would be for all the players or students to be shown their misunderstandings on their beliefs of the game.

Players bet their money according to all the facts and criteria’s. Taking your next bet in consideration and sizing it has really not much to do with wining or losing at all. Betting this way would most likely have you with a grim look on your face.

Most people believe that they have a solid strategy and yet it is this very strategy that foils the game for them. Trying to teach players or students in blackjack this is mostly followed by resentment.

It’s really all mathematical and probability. The first time you sit at the table, chances of wining the next hand is 43.5 percent. In fact, every chance of winning the next hand is exactly 43.5 percent! The story never changes on this.

How to play or not to play blackjack isn’t really a science at all. It all depends on raising or lowering your bets at the right time. Knowing that every hand that is next has a 43.5 percent chance of winning is pretty hard to figure out when to bet.



- 2007-10-26