Chapter 93

Blackjack!

It is one of the most mainstream poker games currently played in casinos.

The rules are simple.

The gambling table is divided into banker and player.

At the beginning of each round, the dealer will deal the cards.

The banker and player each have a total of two cards.

Among them, the player's two cards are both open cards, that is, the numbers on the two cards are visible.

The dealer has two cards, one is an exposed card and one is a hidden card.

The player can only see the number on one of the dealer's cards.

After the cards are dealt, the dealer asks the player if he wants any cards.

If the player wants a card, the dealer will deal him an open card and then repeat the previous steps of asking if he wants a card.

If the player chooses to stop asking for cards, the game will stop and the progress points will be determined.

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The game of blackjack requires a total of 4 to 6 decks of playing cards.

In the point calculation, A can be counted as one or eleven points, 2 to 10 are counted as the points of the card, and J, Q, and K are counted as ten points!

When the player's hand exceeds 21 points during the process of asking for cards, it is called "busting"!

Once this happens, the game ends immediately and the player pays all bets to the banker.

And it is actually not difficult for the player to win money from the banker.

Just ensure two things: the points of the cards in your hand exceed the points of the dealer's cards, and the sum of the points of the cards does not exceed blackjack!

The same is true for the banker. If the points are higher than the player's, and the cards do not explode, they can win money.

Of course, it should be noted that if the player busts his card first, he loses, even if the dealer busts his card later.

If the player and the dealer have the same points, neither the player nor the dealer wins or loses, and it is a draw.

There is one more thing that needs special attention.

During the entire blackjack game, the dealer has no decision-making power.

That is, after the player stops asking for cards, the dealer reveals another hidden card. If the sum of the points of the upright card and the hidden card is less than or equal to 16 points, the dealer must take the card.

If the sum of the points is greater than or equal to 17 points, you must stop asking for cards!

It is not like the player, who can choose to ask for cards or suspend the cards independently.

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Since it was just Gu Lu and the bald man playing, the bald man only took four decks of cards.

After tearing open the packaging of four new decks of playing cards and throwing away the big and small kings in each deck, the bald man pushed a total of 208 cards to Gu Lu.

"Little brother, check it out? This is a serious place and I won't play dirty tricks."

Serious place?

Gu Lu couldn't help but feel happy, and then checked the four decks of playing cards.

There is indeed no problem. All 208 cards are brand new and there is no possibility of marking them. Otherwise, the bald man would not have the confidence to let himself check them.

"No problem." Gu Lu pushed the playing cards back to the bald man.

"If there's no problem, let's get started, little brother!" The bald man chuckled, and like Gu Lu, slapped a pile of cash on the table, and then put the playing cards into the dealing machine.

Money!

It’s all money!

At this moment, the bald man's attention was completely focused on the pile of bills next to Gu Lu's hand, his eyes greedy.

If you can come up with 10,000 yuan so easily, you must be a wealthy person!

Without a good beating, the bald man would feel ashamed of his professional ethics.

Although at first glance, the game of blackjack has a 50-50 probability of winning or losing for both the player and the banker.

However, in actual operation, the probability of the banker winning money is much higher than that of the player.

Because the dealer wants a card in the second hand and the player blew it before, the dealer wins directly.

If the Player does not blow, the Banker will still win as long as the number of points exceeds that of the Player.

According to the bald man's many years of experience, in the game of blackjack, when two people play, the correct winning rate for the banker and the player is seven to three.

Out of ten, he can win three.

In less than half an hour, the ten thousand yuan in front of Gu Lu would have flowed into his pocket.

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Gu Lu took out two hundred yuan from the money pile and placed it in the betting area.

"Let's start dealing the cards!" Gu Lu glanced at the bald man lightly and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

Blackjack!

Gu Lu felt a little nostalgic.

Since being blacklisted by American casinos two years ago, Gu Lu has not played again for a long time.

There is a warning that has been circulating in the mathematical community.

If you are not a professional player, never compete with mathematicians on two things, one is chess and the other is cards!

Because mathematicians will use their solid professional knowledge to let you re-understand what a real... board game is from beginning to end!

Why are there so few casinos opened near those top international universities?

It is not because the dirty and turbid environment of the casino will pollute the noble and pure hearts of the students in the ivory tower.

It's the casino owners who are afraid of being lectured by students and teachers in colleges and universities!

Especially students and teachers in the mathematics department are a nightmare for major casinos.

In casinos, card gambling accounts for a large proportion.

Mathematicians can easily find loopholes in the gameplay, and then calculate a gameplay strategy that is almost guaranteed to win.

There once was a shady boss who opened a casino in the town where Princeton University is located.

As a result, one day, an old professor from the mathematics department of Princeton University discovered this newly opened casino while taking a few of his students for a walk in the town of Princeton.

"Hey, there's a new casino here! There's also a sexy dealer and the cards are dealt online!"

"This boss is a bit young! Come on, classmates, let us teach the young boss a lesson!"

The old professor waved his hand and led the students in to class.

After being taught a lesson by everyone in the Princeton Mathematics Department, the casino owner closed the door and left this sad place the next day.

At the same time, the Princeton teachers and students who participated in the class that night were also blacklisted by major casinos around the world.

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Blackjack, this gambling method, mathematicians have also found many loopholes that can increase the winning rate.

In this game, the number of cards and points are fixed.

Moreover, as the game progresses, the number of cards will gradually decrease.

Mathematicians can calculate the remaining cards in the deck by "card counting".

Then use probability calculations to find the best card-taking strategy.

Give me a chestnut~~

Suppose that after dealing out the banker's and player's two cards each, there are 25 cards left in the deck.

The two cards in your hand are 5 and Q, with a total value of 15.

The dealer's open card value is 3, and the hidden card value is unknown.

Because no matter what the value of the dealer's other hidden card is, the sum of the two cards has a maximum value of 13, which is less than 16, so the card operation must be performed.

At this time, through card counting, you learn that there are 25 cards in the deck and a hidden card in the dealer's hand. There are 26 cards in total. Among them, the number of K, Q, J, 10 is 18, two 9s, and one

A 6, a 4, two 3s, and two 2s.

Faced with this situation, what is the optimal strategy?

That is, instead of asking for cards, let the dealer take the cards.

Because it doesn’t require too complicated calculations to figure out that the dealer has a high chance of busting the card!

Of course, the above is a relatively extreme situation.

In the actual operation process, the situation is often much more complicated than this. The optimal processing method cannot be so simple and can be seen at a glance, but requires a rather complicated calculation process.

However, this did not trouble Gu Lu.

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Chapter completed!