Anyone have any advice for doing well in blackjack tournaments? Should I try to learn how to count or is a blackjack tourny all luck and just knowing the basic strategy?
Anyone have any advice for doing well in blackjack tournaments? Should I try to learn how to count or is a blackjack tourny all luck and just knowing the basic strategy?
Tournament betting strategy is entirely different than cash games, just like it is in poker. Your objective is different. Look into that.
You're also going to deliberately break basic strategy rules sometimes, in the interest of not risking more money (double or split) at the wrong time in a tournament, or to take more risk trying to get more variance (get lucky) sometimes.
If you search around the internet, you can find quite a bit of info on blackjack tournament strategy. Here is an article by Grosjean that discussed Surrender strategy:
If you search around the internet, you can find quite a bit of info on blackjack tournament strategy. Here is an article by Grosjean that discussed Surrender strategy: