NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/gambling/6518

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From: [e-mail] (Dave Cantor)
Subject: Re: 100% SURE THING
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:20:30 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Paul Westley) writes...
> [...]
>She also told me to avoid the multi-action blackjack - you bet your hand
>3 times (minimum $10 each), then get your cards - you'd better not bust
>'cos the dealer then deals 3 sets of cards, one set at a time, and
>compares it to your hand.  (If you busted, you just lost all 3 hands).
>This game seems terrible from many angles, not the least of which is you
>might hit 15 against a 9 showing, but the dealers other 2 hands could
>have 6 showing, in fact I'm not even sure you get to see the first
>dealer hand.

Nope.  The dealer uses the same up card for all three hands, but gets
a new hole card for each one.  If you hit 15 against a 9, you have hit
15 against 9 for all three hands.  Yeah, that's not an ideal hand, so it
seems bad to have to play it 3 times, but when you get 11 and double down
against a dealer's 5, it's nice to have it take effect 3 times.

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 Dave C.                          [e-mail]
 Digital Equipment Corp., Nashua, NH  03062, USA
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