Hit
Also one card, please
17 vs. 7, would you like to hit?
Stand
That’s a push. Could be worse 🤷♀️
Take a nap, never let the enemy predict your next move
buzzes into mic “Security, we got a guy napping on table 7, please escort him out”
I thought this was a free country
When you are near, appear far. When you are eepy, draw eyes on your eyelids so no one can tell.
Stay
that’s a soft 20. house wins. would you like to play another hand?
do me next
Soft 13 vs. dealer 7, would you like to hit? soft 13 seemed to run well for the dealer last hand
hit
wait hang on that’s not 21 that’s a soft 12 would you like to hit?
(that’s actually a hard 12 because the A is now valued at 1)
listen man it’s my first day as a dealer
hit
player busts :(
the dealer should not have hit that. Soft 17 may or may not be hit based on table rules, but if the dealer has soft 18 they will always stand (house wins either way just helping you out for your dealer test)
Security, we got a fucking nerd here telling our dealers how to play, kick his ass
shows badge I’m actually an inspector with the gaming commission, I’m shutting this operation down!
I put the cards down in the wrong order. It was a soft 13 when the dealer hit
oh woops yeah new cards usually go on the other side
HIT ME
I play Pot of Greed. It allows me to draw two more cards!
You drew a 34. You bust
Depends how many people are at the table and where I’m at in the turn order. Is this the start of the shoe or has it been running a while?
buzzes into mic security, we got a guy card counting on seat 6
THERE’S LIKE 4 DECKS IN THE SHOE AND IT GETS REPLACED WELL BEFORE THE LAST QUARTER
LET ME FEEL LIKE I’M PLAYING A GAME IT’S BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT THE ODDS ANYMORE
i think the dealer went out for a pack of smokes 😔
I have 3 players at the table and only 1 of them has taken action, the other 2 are still waiting, and I got 2 waiting to get dealt in. this hand is a nightmare
Even though i saw the other person say stand and the dealer hit a 20 it’s still the right play
It clearly wasnt, cause it means you lose.
Me with a short term time travel device but instead of making a different play i just get increasingly upset that the correct play loses
Biff in back to the future 2 but he has to back his sports faves
pull a uno +4 card and play it
become ungovernable
buzzes into microphone “security, i don’t even know what code this is, but we got a clown on seat 2”
i don’t even know what code this is
I’ll trade one lumber for two stone?
you are wise in the ways of foxtrot black jack
Hit
The correct move was to hit yeah? Like, you could bust but the odds of you getting up into a range where you are more likely to win is higher than busting. Is my analysis close?
For a 13 vs 2 it’s actually a bit controversial.
Huh. That sounded odd at first blush, but hitting on a 13 will bust on 9-10-J-Q-K, over a third of all cards, and while the hidden card could be an 8+ (nearly guaranteed to beat 13 with one additional card), it could also be another two and then the dealer’s in a tough spot I guess.
Still feels counterintuitive to stand on 13 to me but I am very bad at games.
Really? Cause there is so many diffrent ways the two could go or another calculation?
I guess the general rule is to stay but it can depend on enough other stuff that nerds get into it
Fascinating. Doesn’t seem like too many chances to win by just staying
There are 20 cards in a standard deck that could bust you from 13, over a third of the deck is an instant lose and a 2 showing for the dealer isn’t particularly strong. That’s my guess but I’m bad at games.
Thats still 2/3s good hits while I dont think a 13 is a very strong hand either. So wither way the odds seem bad for this hand.
I think that’s the bottom line, it’s just a straight up bad hand.
HIT ME
18 vs. a dealer 7, would you like to hit?
Im gonna stay
I’ll pass and hope that I’ve got something good in my crib
next round of blackjack with @GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net, @30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net, and @segfault11@hexbear.net, and i need to figure out a smoother way to do this
Hey, what did the dealer have on mine? Im guessing i won butni wanna know
oh i was gonna take a pic of it but you won 18 to 17
Heart of the cards right here
hit on any negative count, stand otherwise
That is the correct thing to do, but it’s more fun to hit
personally i dont have fun gambling, i have fun winning
I lived with people who played poker for a living and to me it seemed worse than a normal job. If I’m doing it, it’s for fun. If you can make it work, more power to ya, I respect the shit out of it. I have gone to a casino three times. Once a dude who was hitting on me gave me $800 in chips right after I walked in, so I waited for him to use the bathroom m, cashed out and left. The other times were also on a drunken whim and I came out ahead despite being blackout drunk, I woke up with a hundred or so more than I left with each time. I just dont like the environment unless the times I was wasted and on a lot of coke. I’m around for a cheap semi ironic thrill the few times I show up.
So I payed my rent by counting cards for about six months two years ago. I can confirm that it was miserable. I was barely making more than a job at 7/11, the variance was killer, I had to sit there and breathe in other people’s cigarette smoke for hours and hours and hours… there’s a reason why the biggest success stories in card counting are the people who quit to teach courses on how to do it.
Looking back on it getting banned for counting was a good thing. Maybe my experience would have been better if I was with a team, but doing it by yourself is a slow, miserable grind. That said if I was planning a trip with friends or family I would take the time to knock the rust off my skills before the trip!
I played a shitload of board games with the poker pro roommates and what i still consider The Game of Games, Cosmic Encounter basically requires counting cards to be good at it. I wish there was an online version, no way in hell I could get my irl friends around to play enough to get even close to where I was aroind 2011. They were older hippies and the house was kind of an open tabletop place in the kitchen. It was kinda sick, people let themselves in and brought food booze or weed and in exchange 24 hour tabletop zone.
I keep trying to get my dnd playing work pal to try out an open table style. It’s so much more fun and way easier on the dm. Almost works more like a mmorpg.
There was an attempt at a hexbear Diplomacy game which I would consider the other Game of Games
The way I play this game in fallout new vegas is I hit if its 16 or lower.
That’s what the dealer does and they seem to win a lot
I’m going all in on 17 black
