Blackjack Strategy for Hard Hand
Blackjack card game is highly popular around the world. Players have to be very skilled to learn how to play blackjack, as it is very complicated game. Blackjack odds of winning can be high only if players fully understand the rules of the game and basic blackjack strategy, which means that players should understand the difference between playing soft hand and hard hand. The matter is that most of the beginners play using so called “basic blackjack chart”. In order to play as successfully as possible, the blackjack strategy chart was created to make it easy to make each decision, depending on player's and dealer's cards. The matter is that there is no one common for all game variants and game peculiarities chart – there are several of them even within one and the same game variant. During the game Online Casinos you may have two principal types of hand – hand and soft on, which differ only in count of Ace (or its presence at the hand you have).
Hard hand is the one, where Ace is not presented or where the Ace is counted as 1 point (in soft hand it is values in 11 points). Follow the below described recommendations to boost your chances of winning.
Hard player's hand (No Ace or Ace is counted as 1) |
Dealer's hand (face up card) |
Basic rules |
8 |
|
Hit |
9 |
3, 4, 5 or 6 |
Double |
10 |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 |
Double or Hit |
11 |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 |
Double or Hit |
12 |
4, 5 or 6 |
Stand or Hit |
13 - 16 |
2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 |
Stand or Hit |
17 - 21 |
|
Stand |
This table could help when making decisions about the nest moves but it definitely does not guarantee the winning. The results depend on the general player's knowledge and skills.