Why would I or any one describe individual rounds of blackjack play. Can you get any more boring?Originally Posted by MDawg
I hit my 12 with a 7 for 19. dealer had a 10 showing and turned over a king. Lost.
I stood on my 18. dealer hit his 5, with a 7 and then queen. dealer busted....I won.
I split my 8's winning one hand losing the other.
For God sakes. Noone cares about that shit but you. Now if something unusual happens, like the perfect shoe I just shared again, or maybe splitting and resplitting with a few couple double downs at max bet, that might be interesting and I have shared that kind of thing. But no one cares about individual hands unless there is something unusual. The last thing I want to read is EvenBob say he bet red and red 23 hit.
But in the original sharing of my perfect shoe back on Wizards forum, I did share an unusual hand. One of the hands pushed was a player 10 vs dealer 10. With a very high count the optimal play is to double down, which is incorrect any other time. I chose not to double down and drew a 2 and then a second draw of an 8 for 20, which pushed the dealer 20. (not even sure those were the exact values, maybe it was 3 and 7), but that was the scenario. Had I doubled which the count called for I would have lost the double down. As it was, I pushed with my "supermax bet" (that is another story) out at the time.
And I didn't decide not to double down on a hunch. I don't do hunches. It was the optimal play. But I was already drawing mega heat, with a number of pit folks watching and I was afraid doubling my 10, drawing a 10 or ace and winning would draw even more because doubling 10 vs 10 is so unusual. At that point my focus was on getting through that shoe, hopefully winning as many 'super max bets' as possible and getting out of there without incident. Which I did.
But you telling us individual hands you have played is as boring as watching paint dry.
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