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Pretty sure your winnings are higher if you sit on 20 over time than if you split the ten's against low cards. Sitting at 20 is gonna win a lot of hands.
 
blackjack is a solvable equation. The ideal strategy was determined 50 some odd years ago and the game hasn't changed.
 
If you're betting $10, you expect to win $6.80 by standing and $5.20 by splitting if the dealer is showing a 5. You're giving 16% of what you wager to the Casino every time you do it, and they thank you for that.
 
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it's been successful for me. i don't see the problem with it - at least not to the extent that people react to it.
the way i figure, if you play black jack long enough, you'll basically break even. you come up ahead by taking advantage of the opportunity to split or double.
 
lbE08 said:
it's been successful for me. i don't see the problem with it - at least not to the extent that people react to it.
the way i figure, if you play black jack long enough, you'll basically break even. you come up ahead by taking advantage of the opportunity to split or double.
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If you play blackjack long enough, your results will ultimately be exactly what the math guys say they will be. You can be lucky in the short term, but in the long term everyone ends up in the same place.

If you split tens a thousand times vs 4,5,6 and you're wagering $10 per hand, you'll have $1,500-$1700 less dollars in your pocket.
 
Note I say you expect to win $5.20 every time you do it. You'll make money splitting tens. You'd just make alot more by not splitting tens. You think you're "successful" because you're not losing money, but you're not.
 
You see, chat thread, there's Jim Crow, and there's Old Crow. And one of them's racist, and one of them's delicious.

Important lesson for you all. #history #drunk #lbeiswrongaboutsplittingtens #'loknowsfacebookfriendingsprees #quittingmyjobtomorrow #hashtags
 
Look, I know I said I wouldn't be back until I found a place to live and got all set up in Philly, but it's been too long since I got drunk and posted stuff on the internet. So you'll forgive me if I do just that, if only for a little while tonight.

I watched Lonesome Dove earlier tonight, part 1. It was awesome. I know why TWDeac wanted to be a cowboy when he was younger. Cause you might get the chance to poke Diane Lane. Also, it seemed to me that they mostly just made fun of each other's hats and stole horses from each other. NTTAWWT.

In other news, I found my mood ring today. PHEW. I've been like a ship lost at sea without that thing.
 
palmab03 said:
If you play blackjack long enough, your results will ultimately be exactly what the math guys say they will be. You can be lucky in the short term, but in the long term everyone ends up in the same place.

If you split tens a thousand times vs 4,5,6 and you're wagering $10 per hand, you'll have $1,500-$1700 less dollars in your pocket.
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do you ever split cards?
 
I know you're all proud of me for getting a new job, but I'm afraid I'm dying. I got the super AIDS. And by that, I mean my arm has been hurting a lot today, and I'm not sure why. It's like I scraped it or something, but I can't see any visible marks.

The other night, I woke up at like 3 AM and wrote down a bunch of stuff that I thought would make for good details in the short story I'm finishing up. Most of them are just utter nonsense, but one of them is pretty good. One of them literally says "I think of everything in terms of evolutionary advantage/disadvantage." WTF does that mean?
 
Y'all ever tried to walk a cat? Like in all earnestness walk one? put a leash on it and just see how far you go? They are stubborn fucks. They just drag there pretty much and try to play with the leash, if they don't decide to just sleep first. Cats, man. TS Eliot's only weakness, other than anti-Semitism.
 
My girlfriend's cousin posted a pic of her baby on Instagram. And that bb was getting a haircut and just wailing, but also eating a lollipop at the same time. That's a real pro move for a little bb. Eating a lollipop and whining at the same time. Kid knows a thing or two. I bet peanut does stuff like that.
 
My lips turn into sandpaper in the winter months. I have to apply chapstick about 40 times a day otherwise I'm like a lost soul wandering the Sahara.

Which reminds me, would you rather live in the Sahara and eat snakes and scorpions and what not or all by yourself on the Moon, like Sam Rockwell in that movie?
 
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I know you're all proud of me for getting a new job, but I'm afraid I'm dying. I got the super AIDS. And by that, I mean my arm has been hurting a lot today, and I'm not sure why. It's like I scraped it or something, but I can't see any visible marks.

The other night, I woke up at like 3 AM and wrote down a bunch of stuff that I thought would make for good details in the short story I'm finishing up. Most of them are just utter nonsense, but one of them is pretty good. One of them literally says "I think of everything in terms of evolutionary advantage/disadvantage." WTF does that mean?
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Welcome to the club bro.

Bronson Pinchot said:
Y'all ever tried to walk a cat? Like in all earnestness walk one? put a leash on it and just see how far you go? They are stubborn fucks. They just drag there pretty much and try to play with the leash, if they don't decide to just sleep first. Cats, man. TS Eliot's only weakness, other than anti-Semitism.
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Lol our fam got our cat a leash for xmas and he loved being walked outside waaaay too much. Would just sit at the door and whine to be taken out after he got a taste of it.
 
Do they have scorpions in the Sahara or is that scarabs? I'm getting my "sc-" bugs mixed up.
 
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