Blackjack multiplayers ?

[Sir Puntalot]

Is there any site where say 4 or 5 of you can sit down at the same table and play against the dealer ? or a site where you can be the dealer against other real online players ? I consider myself to be a pretty good blackjack player, some people say bollox, it's all luck, but it isn't. You have to know when to hit and when not to, and not giddy with your stakes, basically make sure you have a fair sized bank to your stakes. I don't go in casinos much, but I did win a fair amount last time I was in there with jeffers and another mate of mine. How did I win ? Well, you must have a table with players that know wtf is going on. By that I mean, players who know when to take a card and when not to, according to the percentages that are currently on the play. Yes, they do use 6 packs of cards, but percentages still exist even so. Last time I played, I had 4 very good players around me, I waited and watched them all before sitting down to play. They all knew when to take cards and when not to, according to what the dealer is showing and what is on the table already, mainly what the dealer is showing. I will go on record as to say this....... If there are 5 good blackjack players on a table, that dealer is struggling bigtime, because they certainly aint winning with 5 good players on the table.

[aliensyndm]

Re: Blackjack multiplayers ? Hate to burst the bubble paul but how "skillfull" the players at the table are has absolutely no mathematical influence on your edge whatsoever. It doesn't matter if they take cards when they "shouldn't" or stand when they should hit. They will help you as much as they will hinder you. You ignore how they play and play your own game, simple as that. Beating blackjack is all about varying bet size and deviating from basic strategy in accordance with the count, (ie card counting). For every 1 good card counter there's 20 who are rubbish, seldom will you get a table where all players on it are proficient. Like I said before it makes no difference to you anyway. Assuking a person can count properly and is playing as close to perfect as he can getting an edge at blackjack is dependant on a number of factors, those being the rules, penetration(how much of the deck(s) are dealt), how big a bet variance you can get away with. This is all very well but at online blackjack deck is shuffled after every hand so none of the above is relevant really. If this wasn't the case people would simply enter the card value's into a computer and be able to gain quite large advantages, more so than any conventional count can offer. Hence it's shuffle after every hand, hence money making potential = 0