3 Most Asked Question When Filipinos Play Online Blackjack

Most of the casino games don't allow you to gain more advantage, although some games do, most of them don't. Blackjack is one of the games that lets you have advantage, this is one of the reasons why people like to play it.

So let's get into the three questions most people ask, hope this article helps you understand more about blackjack! We arranged 3 most asked questions when people play online blackjack.

1. How much does a professional blackjack player usually make?
2. How to gain advantage against the Dealers?
3. When to raise the bet for Blackjack? raise how much more?

How Much Does a Professional Blackjack Make?

So let's assume you are professional in all skills of blackjack, so good that you can keep your 1% advantage in the game. At the same time, we assume you are packed enough to play $10 USD per hand to play online blackjack.

You choose a table without too many players, and this gives you enough time to place 80 bets per hour. Which means, you place $800 USD per hour, with the advantage of 1%, your profit will be $8USD per hour. I know this doesn’t sound much, but if you can go with more than a single bet, the profit is actually quite fascinating.

But what you need to know is that this is all based on you winning the game, you must know that blackjack is a game full of luck, so if I'm you, I will just keep it casual and for entertainment only!

How to Gain Advantage During Blackjack Against Dealers?

This is a question everyone wants to know the answer to when they play online blackjack, as the larger your advantage, the higher your chances of winning.

One direct method is card counting, although professional players have various ways to gain an advantage.

Below, we introduce the basic content of the most popular advantage-playing techniques in Blackjack, but some of them have more detailed explanations in our website's dedicated section.

Card Counting Method

The premise of card counting is not as complicated as you might imagine. The effectiveness of card counting is based on two factors:

If you get a natural blackjack, you receive a payout of 3 to 2.

The Deck Has "Memory Effect"

The correlation between these two factors is so close that it's challenging to discuss one without mentioning the other.

About natural blackjack:

There are only two cards that can form a natural blackjack, and those are an Ace and a 10. (Of course, in the deck, there are four cards with different symbols but a value of 10: 10, J, Q, and K.)

The deck also has a memory effect, at least in most cases. Of course, there are exceptions.

If you play in a blackjack game that uses a continuous shuffling machine, where cards are continuously shuffled, you are using a new deck for each hand. In such a game, gaining an advantage is not possible.

However, if you play in a game with manual shuffling or dealing from a shoe, the composition of the deck changes based on the cards already dealt. This can increase or decrease the probability of being dealt a blackjack.

When and by How Much to Increase Your Bets in Blackjack?

This is the purpose of various card counting systems. All card counting systems share the same goal:

They attempt to estimate how much of an advantage you have.

They achieve this by assigning a value to each card. You add or subtract the count based on this value and adjust your bets accordingly.

One of the more accurate counting methods is the Hi-Lo counting system, one of the most widely used and longstanding methods. Here are the values for this system:

• All Aces and 10s are -1.
• 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are +1.
• 7, 8, and 9 are considered 0.

I know this might seem a bit complex, but this method of keeping track is more accurate.

Play Online Blackjack With Balanced Card Counting System

Here's a basic example of a card counting system. Every time you see a 5, add 1 to the count. Every time you see an Ace, subtract 1 from the count.

When the count is 0 or negative, bet 1 unit. When the count is positive, bet 1 unit + the count. So, if the count is -4, you would bet 1 unit. If the count is +4, you would bet 5 units.

If, on average, you bet $100 per hand, if the count is -4, you bet $100, but if the count is +4, you bet $500.

For example, having an equal number of cards assessed as +1 as you have assessed as -1 cancels each other out when counting an entire deck, returning you to zero.

Card counting systems are designed for single-deck games. The impact of a card disappearing from the deck diminishes as you mix more decks.

If you're playing in a single-deck game, and 4 Aces have already been dealt, the probability of the next card being an Ace is 0. But if you're playing an 8-deck game and 4 Aces have been dealt, the probability of the next Ace is lower, although not zero. After all, you started with 32 Aces (4 Aces per deck). You still have 28 Aces.

To compensate for this dilution effect, card counters convert the "running count" into the "true count" by dividing the running count by the estimated number of decks remaining in the shoe.

As you can see, it becomes more challenging to gain an advantage when using more decks.

Since your advantage occurs less frequently, you may need to increase your betting range (the amount between your high and low bets) to compensate.

The nuances of how to navigate between these amounts will be a topic for discussion next time.