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Review of Basic Blackjack

Posted By Pam Bennett Posted on May 16, 2022
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Every once in a while a blackjack player will come across a game with odd rules where one doesn’t immediately know the correct basic strategy. For example, one might be playing the liberal rules game at the Las Vegas Club on Fremont St. that allows the player to double on any three or four cards and provides a six card automatic winner. Just last year I played in a game that allowed early surrender against a dealer ten. And, just how much are those games with bonuses for 6-7-8 of the same suit worth, anyway? When it comes to basic strategy variations, there’s no book like Basic Blackjack by Stanford Wong.

Basic Blackjack is divided up logically enough, starting with an introduction, an explanation and chart of general basic strategy, and an explanation of common rule variations, such as the number of decks or whether the dealer hits soft seventeen. This material is present in all of Wong’s blackjack books, but, by definition, it has to appear here.

Wong then describes some more common, and not so common, rules variations and how they both change the player’s optimum strategy and expectation. Some of these scenarios, like the “No Natural Winner for Dealer” are not that uncommon. As of this writing, the Sundowner in Reno uses this rule. (By the way, do you know the one strategy variation if this is the case?) Some scenarios, such as “split any sixteen” one will probably never see. But if so, Basic Blackjack is the place to find out how that game should be played.

The last three chapters, Tells, Warps, and Other Slot Gacor Tricks are amalgamated here from Wong’s now out of print book, Winning Without Counting. Some people have felt that some of the strategies in that book, and to a lesser extent these chapters in Basic Blackjack, suggest behavior that crosses the line between advantage play and cheating. I won’t enter into that debate here except to say that this is worthwhile material to have in print, serious blackjack players should be aware of it, and nobody should assume that just because Wong has put it in print that they should attempt all of these advantage methods. Wong is aware of the moral ambiguity of some of these methods and states this explicitly.

Basically, this is one of those books that I cannot imagine a serious blackjack player not having in their library. This is the only source of much of this information in print, and to have it all in one place is simply invaluable. The serious blackjack player will read it once and continue to refer to it many times over the years. If one is going to a location with a blackjack game that has unknown rules, this book should be one’s traveling companion. Moreover, it’s available at a very reasonable price compared to most of what passes for gambling literature these days. Buy this book.

Capsule:
This book is an indispensable part of the serious blackjack player’s library. It covers blackjack basic strategy, but supremely thoroughly, covering common games as well as some of the most obscure rules variations that have ever been found on the planet. While it will only be read all the way through once, it will doubtless be referred to many times, and at a very reasonable price, Basic Blackjack represents a superb value. This is a “must have”.

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