I simmed the avg player at this and came up with them losing 1.5-2% in addition to the match side bet. The casinos make a ton on this game.
Yeah, that's what I meant, but I didn't find them difficult. As I said, I approached it the same as learning blackjack indices. Where it gets difficult is learning indices for the multi-card departures. That's like learning indices for indices, although some systems simplify this by using offsets to the normal indices.
I thought that is what you meant. I don't quite understand the entire chart at the hitorsplit website for SP21. Some of the symbols and the numbers on some of the strategy plays are confusing and they are not listed in the legend or either I'm missing something. I like the strategy trainer there for the Spanish21 but I wish the strategy trainer would cycle the player through the most challenging hands that are commonly misplayed vs. obvious or pat hands where the correct decision would be either to hit, split, double, etc. I like this variation of BJ because I think it is challenging.
Rescue is the biggest one that the ploppy screws up. If you aren't going to rescue you should hardly ever double. You hardly ever see people that even come close to a grasp of BS. If you want to learn this game the first and hardest lesson is it is not BJ. Forget everything you learned about BJ because it will only mess you up.
All the complicated stuff they mess up, like splits. They will split hands you shouldn't split and then not double down when they get a great card that calls for a double down.
They are oblivious to bonus draws. They screw up the edge under BJ strategy by taking out the T's but they give it back to you in bonuses. If you don't know how to play for the bonuses correctly you aren't getting the edge back that left when they took out the 10's. They treat every 13, 14 and 15 the same and treat every total the same no matter how many cards you have. They screw up the soft hand strategies.
You don't double as many soft hands because they are likely to become multicard bonus hands if you miss making a hand counting the A as 11. The ace is very valuable to getting multicard bonuses.
They treat every double opportunity the same regardless of the number of cards. Most never even recognize there is a bonus draw situation to start with.
Then you need to hit like crazy because the dealer isn't going to bust much. I think the most common 2 card totals are 14, 15 and 16. That means if the dealer has a 5 or 6 up and flips the hole card and takes a hit, not only is he likely to make a hand, but make a strong hand. The main factor for hitting is how likely you are to bust not the dealers bust chances. There is no bust upcard for the dealer in Spanish 21. You are supposed to hit all your 12's and 13's no matter what the dealer has but you rarely see such a simple BS employed at the table.
Then you get surrender. there is one BS surrender in Spanish 21, 17vA. Nobody bats an eye if you surrender any other stiff but watch what happens when you surrender 17vA on one hand and hit 16vA on the other. Everyone thinks you are crazy. 17vA is the worst 2 card matchup in Spanish 21. You should surrender but if you can't you should hit. You never see the plops do either. There really isn't a big difference between any of the decisions but standing is the worst.
Basically most players screw up every aspect of BS.
You will see bonus draws like 8,6 and 7,6 and 8,7 and 7,7 drawing for 21 (unsuited pays 3:2, suited pays 2:1 and spaded pays 3:1), and the multi-card bonus draws like 4 cards drawing for the 5 card 21 bonus (pays 3:2), 5 cards drawing for the 6 card 21 bonus (pays 2:1) and 6 or more cards drawing for the 7 or more card 21 card bonus (pays 3:1). You must first recognize you are in a bonus draw situation to adjust your strategy to play for it. Of course there's the Super Bonus draw of 2 suited 7's against a dealer 7. If you end up with 3 suited 7's against the dealer's 7 upcard you win $1000 for a bet less than $25 or $5,000 for a bet of $25 or more.
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