Playing Blackjack is EASY!!!!!

As a constant Blackjack tournaments player I can say that at least one person at the table is likely to  know some degree of Basic Strategy. If you have an opportunity to show that you seemingly don’t, then by all means take advantage of this. I’ve asked a floorperson hovering over my game, “What does the book say?” counless times over the years, knowing full well “what the book says,” and what I would end up doing no matter what his or her answer was. By the way, I wouldn’t call a floorperson’s attention to a calculated blackjack strategy variation, but if he’s staring down at my game I might suggest that the reason I’m standing on my 12 against the dealer’s 2 is that “I have a hunch a picture card is coming.” Or, “every single time I get this hand and draw a card, I bust.” Casino personnel are used to hearing oddball explanations for why gamblers play a certain way. In other words, when in Rome act like a Roman.
Call me an actor, but all of these little things add up and collectively go a long way towards leaving the door open for future visits to that same casino. After a while, the  of it becomes the game within a game at which you instinctively try to become more and more proficient in playing the game of online blackjack.

On shoe games in virtually all casinos, the dealer tallies up and at nounces the total of each player’s hand as the player draws more cards. Not many people who think they can play blackjack know this. Make use of this audible while feigning disinterest in cards other than your own whenever possible. If you see or hear that a player has a total of 14 , and then after asking for a card the dealer announces that the player new total is 19, you know a 5 must have been dealt. A crafty one is a situation in which you notice another player has a total of 12. If the player draws a card and the dealer almost immediately collects the cards and the bet, you know without even looking that the last card dealt had to be a 10.  Add to your running count as appropriate. Anytime in Blackjack tournaments you can establish lack of interest in other players’ cards while still maintaining a correct count—especially in front of a boss—is a golden opportunity that should never be passed up.