June 9th, 2010
Like any other game, blackjack has a set of etiquette that you must follow. Assuming that you know the basics of the game, we would like to lineup some hand signals that you must know so you can communicate with the dealer effectively.
The hand signals in blackjack will be different if you are playing a game where the cards are dealt facing up or facing down.
When you are playing a face up blackjack game here are some tips you can follow to signal the dealer what you want to do:
- Point at your cards if you like another card or a hit
- If you feel like standing then wave you hands over your cards, parallel to the game table
- If you want to split your card or maybe double down, place your 2nd bet just near your original bet and never atop your original bet
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February 24th, 2009
One of the most successful ways to minimize your expected loss playing blackjack is this old Vegas wisdom: “If win, press your bets. If you lose, bet less.”. It pretty much boils down to betting more after a win, going down to the minimum of your bets after any loss. It’s a way to minimize your losses on the inevitable losing streaks — the one that kills people playing the Martingale system…
The “If win, press your bets. If you lose, bet less.” is basicly playing the Parlay system.
More info on these betting systems can be found in my post titled “Blackjack Betting Systems: a Method to my Madness“.
Good luck at the tables!
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January 28th, 2009
Hi guys – thanks for the comments! Quite a few people have sent me positive reactions on me openly fighting my gambling addiction, and I think that’s great! I have good news for all of you — basicly I feel pretty okay, and I think I have things under control pretty well.
A few things:
- I am hitting a casino once every week, basicly to play poker, and never play over one hour of table games. I’m proud of that. I know this sounds like I still gamble 1 day out of seven, but basicly I gamble like an hour every week. As I’m a winning poker player, I’m actually in the plus for this month, and it’s steady! Same goes for December!
- I went to Las Vegas, and I didn’t gamble nearly as much as I did last time. I did one of those Las Vegas Exotic Car Rental things and rented myself an Aston Martin Vanquish and it was great. Drove to the grand canyon, drove to Hoover Dam. All the time I didn’t feel like gambling at all.
I’m happy. I really am. Please pray for me, I appreciate it a lot!
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December 17th, 2008
I’m pretty proud of myself for refraining from blackjack almost completely in the last couple weeks. Obviously the reason has to be sought in me dropping quite a lot of money in the past couple months — but still — the result is me playing less and fighting my gambling addiction, and that’s positive.
I’ll keep you posted of how I do NOT playing — I hope I can post here again in January telling you I’m still “clean”.
Pray for me, will you?
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December 6th, 2008
The question is will the the economic crisis affect the online Casino Market or the online Poker Market. The answer will probably be yes. You can already see the effects in the land based Casino. The Poker players stay away from the the casinos and the gamblers stay more at home or keep there winning instead of gambling them again.
In the Online Casinos and online Poker rooms there is not a big setback yet but maybe it will come very soon. The casinos en ligne and the poker online rooms have to put overlays on the tournaments. There are far less players that register in a Casino online or Poker on line room even though nothing changed to the online casino bonussen. So the deutsche online casino also feels the effect of the economic crisis and they will react. The normal Casino are already giving rooms away for free and the online casinos will give more money away in the future.
So if you wanna play in a online casino or online poker room the now if the chance to win some big money.
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October 20th, 2008
I’ve been running okay in a single deck game I found on a boat! Have been counting and have been doing well; haven’t run into any trouble just yet, which is great.
I’m up $9400 in about two weeks, taking a break now to make sure I can keep playing the boat in the future… 
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October 1st, 2008
I’ve had a tough month of September on the blackjack tables and it’s pretty much due to not sticking to my “discipline”-promise. I started playing $1000 a hand again and even though I was up about 24 thousand that one night I ended up losing $30,000 total, which is a pretty sick amount for someone with my income… I’m losing in poker too…
I suppose I haven’t conquered my gambling addiction just yet. I only played 5 days, but the days I played — were hefty…
Hang in there with me.
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September 11th, 2008
The MONKEY who wrote this should be drugged to death. 
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August 30th, 2008
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!
Pretty pic too!
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July 2nd, 2008
My blackjack results for the first few days of July are resembling those of the rest of June – steady in the plus thanks to finding a new 4-deck shoe-game which allows me to count much easier than the 6-deck game I had at my local casino. Also – I’ve been doing great on the addiction side of my gambling hobby. I’ve put myself on a tough schedule not playing for 5 days in a row at some points during a work week and getting just a set amount of hours during weekend play… Not only does it work for now but it also means I can’t keep track of my win/losses during a session that much as I am supposed to leave the blackjack table at a specific hour anyway…
I have allowed ONE exception — I’m allowed to keep playing if the deck is hot, but quit when it drops below my collercount.
Wish me luck everyone!
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