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- From: freedman@cs.colostate.edu (keith freedman)
- Subject: Re: 100% SURE THING
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- Message-ID: <Jan22.002121.32922@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:21:21 GMT
- Reply-To: freedman@cs.colostate.edu
- References: <1993Jan21.142345.10868@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Colorado State University -=- Computer Science Department
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- In article 10868@engage.pko.dec.com, cantor@star.enet.dec.com (Dave Cantor) writes:
- >In article <2336.27.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>, paul.westley@uttsbbs.uucp (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.
- >
-
- These are TWO DIFFERENT games. There is tripple-action as described first
- and tripple-play as described second. I prefer the tripple-play as I
- immediately know (or can speculate anyways) if I'm gonna win 3 or not.
-
- The basic idea on both is not to bust. Figure anything is better than
- busting since you quickly loose 3 times and loose all hope of the
- dealer even busting once. Nice is when you loose the first hand and
- win the next two (so your still ahead). Nicer is to get BJ and get
- paid 1.5 X3.
-
- ---
- Keith Freedman
- Colorado State University
- Department of Computer Science
- Systems Administration
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