Electronic Blackjack - hit after doubling down.

[kewlJ]

It's very odd, that the possibility of doubling your bet a 2nd time is never mentioned, when you state earlier that this is one of the choices that comes up for a half a second on the glitch options.

I thought I was clear on this. After the initial double down was complete, the 'hit', 'double down' and 'stand' options all lit up again for a second time, but only for a fraction of a second. You had to act very quickly. This is why without the ability to run simulations, the common sense strategy I came up with was to re-double down more aggressively than you otherwise would have, doubling down more 8's and 9's, knowing you could re-double if you drew the dreaded 2 or 3 as your double card, and re-hit if you drew something like a 4 or 6 (dependent on what the dealers up card was). I never tried to re-double anything higher than an 11 as that didn't make sense to me, but my guess would be you would not be able to since the original double down was limited to 8-11 totals, I assume the re-doubledown would also be limited to hands totaling 8-11.

But again, the key was you had to act very, very quickly.

Whatever the case at $200 per hour based on estimated hands per hour and a $100 bet your edge wasn't very good between .3 and .75

So is it just something I missed? I still haven't seen anyone come up with a % value on this.

According to KJ betting $100 a hand made you $200 an hour. I haven't seen any recent Blackjack machines that couldn't crank out at least 300 HPH.

I don't know where you are coming up with these numbers? They are quite different than the 2 estimates I received in the $200 range.

Hands per hour: When I asked a couple players privately, I estimated 120 rounds per hour. 2 rounds per minute. And the estimates were for close to a 2% advantage. Now after having played the game for 2 months, I now think that 120 rounds per hour was high. I would now put it at 90-100 rounds per hour. This may be at least in part why our final numbers were a little below the original estimates.

Your friend Mike, didn't supply me with the information I requested. he would only do so, if I told him the game and location in Las Vegas. I couldn't do that. For one thing, it wasn't my play to be giving away. My brother found it and brought me in on it. But I highly doubt, Shackleford would have been interested in a play with $100 max bet, 100 rounds per hour, @ between .3% and .75%edge. That would be $30-$75 and hour. So for me, when he was interested in the play and would only provide me the information if I gave him the play, it kind of confirmed the other numbers in the $200/hr range were more what it was.


While I find this discussion interesting from the math angle, I am disappointed that the discussion is occuring NOW. I needed and requested this information and could have used this dissussion back in mid March.