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Blackjack Basic Strategy

Anyone who has played blackjack more than once in their life has talked to someone or read about famous blackjack basic strategy.

Basic strategy is based upon sound mathematics. Basic strategy is supposed to reduce the house edge to less than 1%. Wizard of Odds has a very nice calculator for whatever table rules you stumble upon.

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Playing blackjack online may be illegal where you live. Its a good idea to check the laws in your state or country. If you are going to play blackjack online you can use this strategy card for online as well as playing blackjack at sanctioned land/sea casinos.

Blackjack Strategy Card

Your Hand	Dealer’s face-up card
	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	A
Hard totals
18-21	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
17	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	Rs
16	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	Rh	Rh	Rh
15	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	Rh	Rh
13-14	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
12	H	H	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
11	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H
10	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
9	H	D	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
5-8	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
Soft totals
A,9	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
A,8	S	S	S	S	D	S	S	S	S	S
A,7	D	D	D	D	D	S	S	H	H	H
A,6	H	D	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
A,4-5	H	H	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
A,2-3	H	H	H	D	D	H	H	H	H
Pairs
A,A	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP
10,10	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
9,9	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	S	SP	SP	S	S
8,8	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	Rsp
7,7	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	H	H	H	H
6,6	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	H	H	H	H	H
5,5	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
4,4	H	H	H	SP	SP	H	H	H	H	H
2,2 3,3	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	H	H	H	H

Key:

S = Stand

H = Hit

Dspan> = Double

SP = Split

Rh = Surrender if allowed, otherwise Hit

Rs = Surrender if allowed, otherwise Stand

Rsp = suRrender if allowed, otherwise SPlit

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