The Importance of Knowing Dealer's Hole Card

Hole cards are very precious. If you had knowledge of the hole card of the dealer, your advantage will be ten percent on each hand.

Professional players of blackjack had devised many ways of finding out the hole card of the dealer. Most of these methods are no longer in use nowadays due to the fact that casinos have gotten smarter with attempts to shift the house advantage to their favor which led to the introduction of various countermeasures.

But, there is single method that remains in use in a lot of casinos. Perhaps you have gone to a casino and notice that right after the shuffle when fresh cards are dealt, some order is still in their original positions as though they were taken out from a new deck.

You can utilize this data. With the basic shuffles in many casinos, cards really have the tendency to maintain their sequence. This effect is not just luck. Let's say that you have knowledge that the previous card before the hole card would come before a card with a value of ten in a new deck sequence, and that the card following the hole card would follow a card with a value of ten in a new set of cards. Thus, unless the shuffle is actually random, you will understand that the dealer's hole card is possibly a ten.

This will give you a signal when to place insurance bets. A 0-2.1 percent edge over a simple strategy is determined by the manner of shuffling the cards. Your edge is 2.1 percent if you get a correct prediction all the time. On the other hand, your edge is aero percent when your forecast is based from pure luck. It is likely that the shuffle you see is actually a random shuffle and the cards are just organizing themselves as though they were from a new deck. Because of this, you need to avoid playing on complicated shuffles and jot down the outcome.

You can obtain a 2.1 percent edge by devising other strategy diversion because of your knowledge of the hole card of the dealer, but the idea becomes even more complicated due to the fact that you need a lot of knowledge when you should deviate from simple strategy for every play, and there is a distinct level of forecasting accuracy demanded for every play.

Knowledge of the hole card of the dealer is yet another method by which players can turn a little of the house edge into their favor.