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Originally Posted by springzz
If you play optimal blackjack strategy, the house has a 52-48 edge
(not taking into account pushes, becuase why would you anyways, if you lose 5 hands, then push 1, then lose another 5, you've lost 10 in a row essentially fwiw).
Wtf at whoever said you're over 50 to win? That's idiotic.
But yeah just do .52 ^ 10
= 0.14455 %
No.
Playing perfect basic strategy against common standard rules you will win about 42% of the hands dealt. That also remains constant with card counting except at rare extreme counts, but you just win more from bet scaling when counting. The dealer will always win 49% of hands, and the other 9% is pushes. (rounded numbers)
So if we ignore pushes, then on any given hand our chance to lose the hand is about 49/(49+42)=54%. Getting 10 in a row (counting only win/loss hands) at 54% is pretty common. If we play 1000 hands the chance to see a streak of 10 losses is about 62%. We go past 50/50 at about 700 hands.
The house edge is not based on hands won, it's based on money won (lost) and you put more on the table on splits and doubles.
Last edited by spadebidder; 09-26-2011 at 07:16 PM.
Reason: I now see this thread is old and was bumped today.