5 deck blackjack strategy
Blackjack is one of the most interesting card games of our time. It satisfies the needs of ordinary players in a simple game with simple rules and more demanding professionals who want to show their skills and knowledge of strategies.
Throughout the history of the game, new strategies and ways to win the game have appeared. Of course, casinos for which losing a player is the purpose and way to survive will try to do everything possible to win. One great example is the addition of extra decks. So, at the beginning of the game, only one deck was used, but with the advent of card counting methods, additional decks were added, to make card counting almost impossible.
As a result, different establishments began to play poker with different numbers of decks, usually from two to eight. Casinos that play with one deck have almost completely disappeared. In this article, we will specifically consider the 5 deck strategy.
So, basically, the 5 deck blackjack strategy looks kind of the same as any other blackjack strategy.
- Decide on a betting strategy. Same bets, increase by two when losing, and others. You can find them on the Internet and choose the best one for yourself. Beginners usually decide how many games they want to play and divide the money they have by the number of games to play safely.
- Use blackjack charts, which are usually combined for games in the range from 4 to 8 decks. Charts are used by most players, usually, casinos allow the use of blackjack charts, but it is better to memorize them for a faster and more professional game.
- Card counting. Counting cards was and still is the best way to increase your chances of winning. The increase in the number of decks only complicated the process and created a higher threshold for entering professional counting.
Charts in 5 deck blackjack strategy (as with any other number of decks) is a detailed table with advice and chances of winning with specific combinations. However, we can highlight the most basic tips:
- Never take insurance
- Split eights and Aces
- Never split fives and tens
Betting methods are quite simple, so we will not consider them at the initial stages of learning the game. Methods of counting cards are quite complicated, some of them are written in whole books and instructions for dozens of pages, so we will not be able to reveal them in a small article. If you want to try to learn how to count cards, then first understand how the Hi-Lo strategy works.
In general, the game with five decks is not much different from the game with another number of decks, only harder to count cards, although if you know how to do it you will easily get used to five decks.
