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- From: jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Steven R Jacobs)
- Subject: Re: 100% SURE THING
- Message-ID: <JACOBS.93Jan22095734@cells.cs.utah.edu>
- In-reply-to: freedman@cs.colostate.edu's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:21:21 GMT
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <1993Jan21.142345.10868@engage.pko.dec.com>
- <Jan22.002121.32922@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 09:57:34
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- In article <Jan22.002121.32922@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> freedman@cs.colostate.edu (keith freedman) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Actually, I think you have these reversed. Triple-action (multi-action)
- came first and is described in the previous posts -- same dealer upcard
- played out against multiple times. Triple-CHANCE blackjack, as described
- in the Dec. 25 1992 issue of "Card Player", the dealer gets three different
- upcards before you act on you hand.
-
- > 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.
-
- Wrong. In multi-action blackjack, the basic idea is to use basic strategy.
- In triple-chance blackjack, the correct strategy will depend on the three
- upcards, but using a simple "never bust" strategy would be foolish.
-
- Triple-chance blackjack is a very bad game for the player. Hopefully
- people will stay away from it so that it will die in infancy.
- --
- Steve Jacobs ({bellcore,hplabs,uunet}!utah-cs!jacobs, jacobs@cs.utah.edu)
- "Don't worry, I just have these harmless pocket rockets...."
-