I am BY NO MEANS encouraging anyone to play blackjack, but if you're interested in it, at least use some basic mathmatical strategy to narrow the house's edge. You can find a tip card here at Wizard of Odds.
Last time I was in Vegas, my best friend sat down at a BJ table some friends of ours had taken over and used the card one of them had. She made a few hundred bucks that night and got addicted to BJ the whole weekend. I kept her company a few times and lost my $100 buyin each of the three times we played. Thank God for the 1/2 NL game at the MGM Grand, I was able to make it all back and then some. Blackjack and I do not get along well!
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Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden
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