As I have said many times, the more ridiculous a belief is, the more tenaciously it tends to be held. I hope this puts and end the third baseman myth, but I doubt it. Number cards (2-10) count as face value, Aces count as either 1 or 11, and Kings, Queens, and Jacks count as 10. The game’s object is to create a hand with a value equal to or closer to 201 than the dealer’s hand without busting.
So the house edge of the basic strategy playing first player was almost the same, regardless of whether the second player played correctly or wildly incorrectly. The game is played with 3 boxes and 6 standard decks of 52 cards.
In a simulation of 1.05 billion hands the loss of the first player was 0.282%, and the second player was 11.260%. Second, I had the first player follow the same correct strategy, and the second player follow the same correct strategy except: Over almost 1.6 billion rounds, the loss of the first player to act was 0.289%, and the second player to act of 0.288%. Player may re-split to four hands, including acesįirst, I had both players follow correct total-dependent basic strategy. The rules I put in are the standard liberal Vegas Strip rules as follows.
However, you are the lucky 1000th person to ask, so I took the trouble to prove it by random simulation. In ten years of running this site I steadfastly denied the myth that bad players cause other players to lose in blackjack.
