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Advanced Online Casino Blackjack

Advanced Level Blackjack Strategies

For example, suppose I was playing a single deck head up Online Casino game. My running count and true count is estimated to be the same for the first two rounds of play (multiplier is 1). After the third and fourth round of play, I convert my running count to true count by multiplying by 3/2. On the final rounds of play, my multiplier increases by one for each round (2 then 3 then 4).
When I first started to use this technique I wrote down the multiplier and corresponding # rounds played on the back of a hand held basic Tactics card. The latter was (and still is) tolerated and when I referred to it to remember the multiplier, it also gave the impression I was a novice player checking my basic strategy. I kept track of the number of rounds played with my chips. After every round I placed one of my chips in a separate stack. All I had to do was to count the number of chips in my "special stack" to determine the round.
You will soon see that for single (and double) deck games we will use only the running count for sizing our bets and compute the true count for only seventeen specific playing situations. This simplification makes it a lot easier to remember how to bet and when to deviate from basic strategy.

Double Deck Games

Discard trays are universally used in double deck games. We'll estimate the number of cards in the discard tray to the nearest one third or one half deck to compute our multiplier for running count to true count.
Let's summarize the conversion of running count to true count.
1. You convert the running count to true count in multiple deck games prior to making a bet and for determining when to deviate from the basic playing strategy for seventeen specific hands. For single and double deck games, you use the running count to vary the bet size and true count for the same seventeen playing situations.
2. To calculate the true count you must divide the running count by the number of unplayed decks of cards.
3. Estimate the number of unplayed decks of cards from the number of decks of cards in the discard tray. Therefore the number of unplayed decks of cards is simply the number of decks being used in the casino game minus the number of decks estimated in the discard tray.
4. Calculate the true count by dividing the running count by the number of unplayed decks of cards. In the case of single and double deck games, use the appropriate multiplier to make this conversion.
5. If your true count contains a fraction, round up for fractions greater than and round down for fractions or less.
6. In single deck games with no discard tray, use the correct multiplier based upon number of hands played.
Don't be alarmed by what first appears to be a complicated mathematical manipulation that needs to be done in your head while you play blackjack. Once you practice the conversion of running count to true count, it will become automatic. In reality, you'll have a number in your memory (the running count) which you'll quickly divide by another number to estimate the true count. The entire process, with a little practice, will take literally seconds. Remember we are not after scientific accuracy to two decimals. All we want to do is to make our best estimate as accurate as we can as to the composition of the remaining cards. With practice, you'll be able to make this conversion a lot easier than you think.