Factors Affecting Blackjack Probability
While majority of casino games are based on luck, the game of blackjack does not. It is a casino game that is based on mathematical probability that enables its players to gain better advantage over the dealer with a good strategy and skilled hand play. Although the probability of winning in the game of blackjack is high, it is not a complete assurance that blackjack players will always come ahead of the dealer all the time.
Learning and mastering about the blackjack probability may take longer time and tedious efforts before a player can finally master the skill of calculating the blackjack probability. In order to successfully bring favor to the player's odds of getting an advantage play over the casino, it is important to understand key factors that can affect the blackjack probability.
Blackjack probability can be based from a simple instead of a complex theory. The blackjack probability can be affected by the number of decks used in a particular blackjack game. As numbers of cards are removed from the deck the blackjack probability also typically changes.
Under this premise the card counting strategy works in a manner where more high valued cards from ten to King remain on the deck, the higher is the probability that the odds of the game brings favor to the blackjack player. The opposite results when more low valued cards left on the deck where the dealer has the greatest odd of winning in blackjack.
The former condition entails greater probability of the dealer to bust with more ten valued cards left on the deck. Blackjack players have the greatest opportunity to double down their bets in this situation. The latter condition on the other turns the probability of busting high on the part of the player thus they should reduce their bets.
Moreover the dealer has no free will to make a decision. They are nailed down of hitting at a hand value of 16 and stand at a hand value of 17 or higher. This gives players a higher probability of winning on a situation where even if the player has a lower hand value than the dealer who has the hand value of 16 but since the dealer has no choice but to hit, getting a card value of 6 or higher will cause the dealer to bust making the player an instant winner in this situation.
The absence of the dealer's freewill plus the prevalence of higher value cards left on the deck from 10 to King can affect the blackjack probability and odds which is more favorable to the player than to the casino.
These factors give blackjack players the ability to reduce the house advantage in blackjack with a good strategy up to 0.5%. Therefore with such opportunity to get ahead of the casino, players should learn how to master a good blackjack strategy first prior to wagering in a game of blackjack.
