Increasing Your Blackjack Odds

Like in brick and mortar casino, blackjack is one of the most popular online casino games. Blackjack enthusiasts will find not only standard blackjack, but blackjack variations and progressive blackjack games.

Not only that, but players will also find online blackjack tournaments as well. Not every type of online casino game will have tournaments offered at online casinos. The only ones that do are blackjack, slots, roulette and video poker. Naturally there are only poker rooms, but they are a bit different from online casinos.

When it comes to playing blackjack online it is not too much different from playing blackjack in a brick and mortar casino. And just like when playing in a brick and mortar casino, you will want to use strategy to increase your blackjack odds. Increasing your odds through strategy is the best way to increase your winnings.

The first aspect of strategy you want for online blackjack is a basic strategy chart. A basic strategy chart tells you the best statistically play to make for every hand against any dealer up card.

These can be found easily online. Most online blackjack games are played with six to eight decks, although online casinos generally will not tell you how many decks. So make sure you find a basic strategy chart for either a six or eight deck game. There is not too much of a difference between the two so either will do.

Once you have found a chart, leave it open in another window so that you can reference it easily. All you need to do is check the chart for the hand you were dealt against the dealer’s up card, and see what play basic strategy tells you to make. Then make that play. Playing with basic strategy can lower your online blackjack odds to around 0.5%.

Next would normally come the advice on card counting. But there really is no advice for card counting in online blackjack. This is because card counting in online blackjack is not possible.

The way the cards are dealt and discarded in online blackjack can be likened to games in a brick and mortar casino that use a continuous shuffle machine (CSM). When a round is finished, all of the discarded cards are not removed from play. They are fed into the CSM and shuffled back into the deck. Without cards being removed from play, card counting cannot happen.

Because the Random Number Generator (RNG) in online blackjack games pulls all game outcomes, including all cards dealt, all cards are in play at the beginning of each round. With no cards being removed from play in online blackjack, card counting is pointless to try.

Using a blackjack strategy is the best way to increase your online blackjack odds. And increasing your odds is your first step to increasing your winnings.