The odds of the other person getting a card they want doesn’t necessarily change, so why does it effect anybody when a player doesn’t play by the chart
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Once I was 3rd base, hit on a 17 (which you’re not supposed to do), got a 4. The table groaned. Dealer had 9 showing, 2 in the hole. Next card was a face, giving him 21. A push for me, the rest of the table lost. If I hadn’t pulled that 4, dealer would have turned the 4 then the face, busting them, then the entire table would win.
That’s why people get mad.
It only matters in retrospect.
* If you hit and they needed that card but got a bad one instead, they’re mad.
* If you stayed, they got a bad card, then the next card after was what they were looking for, they’re mad.
It’s just people externalizing odds.
In many cases it doesn’t matter, but in some situations it does.
The dealer will reshuffle when he gets to a certain percentage of the deck left.
If the count is good, and you are hitting when you shouldn’t, you’re wasting a good count since the shuffle will come quicker than it should, and potentially making you miss some good count opportunities.
The opposite is also true. If the count is bad, and you’re staying when you should hit, then you are prolonging the bad count.
People like to act like they ‘knew’ the next card. When the guy with 16 hits and gets 20 no one complains, but when he busts and the dealer has a 5 showing (you always assume the facedown is worth 10) the dealer would have gotten the card instead and the table would have won. But because the ‘other guy’ took the card now the dealer may get something lower
in the long term does it matter? No, but people focus on just this hand, which we now lost because you took the card destined for the dealer
Yeah, it makes no sense. Actually, if you’re counting cards, you always want everyone before you to hit as many times as possible, since that gives you the most information about the deck. The particular card that came up for them seems relevant, but it isn’t. When you make a decision, you care about probabilities, not actualities.
It doesn’t make a difference for the most part. Only difference would be within the context of advantaged play (card counting) where if the deck is hot, you’d like it to remain that way as much as possible. So someone hitting a card they shouldn’t would have a greater chance of being a high card and therefore diluting both the count/true-count.
It doesn’t. If you count cards however it sucks when someone walks in and starts burning through the deck you’ve waited on.
If u r counting cards you kind of want to see other players take as many cards as possible.
Simple answer: it doesnt.
I go to the casino a fair amount but wouldn’t consider myself a blackjack expert by any means, but it’s one of the only table games I play and I know the correct* plays in 99% of scenarios.
Blackjack players love to blame losses on another player misplaying, even though the random chance could hurt or help them. For example:
I have 13 and the dealer has a 5 showing. I should stay and allow the dealer to take a 10 (assuming they have 15 with the 5 showing). But lets say that I take a hit, bust, and the dealer takes a 5, the table will likely lose and it will be seen as my fault. However, I could have just as easily taken the 5 and given the dealer the bust card. Additionally, I’m assuming the dealer has 15 with the 5 showing, but how do I know they don’t have a 6 down instead of a 10 and now the 5 is going to help them bust?
There are small ways it could throw off people that were really card counting, but it’s mostly about smug blackjack players
In most cases, it doesn’t. Even with advantaged play that you might have from card counting, it won’t necessarily be an issue unless their “wrong move” triggers a reshuffle.
There are also certain other rules some casinos might put in place to limit money loss that could potentially screw with you. Say they limit eight hands per table, and you’ve got seven normally being dealt. If someone else splits (especially when they “shouldn’t”) when you also should, you’d lose out on that opportunity, but that’s a super rare occurrence
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