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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I’ll give an example:
Say the last person to play has 15 and the dealer has a 6. Following the ‘rules’, the player should sit. But say they hit and got a 10 (busted), then the dealer got a 10 then a 5, giving them 21. If the person had played to the ‘rules’, then they would have sat and the dealer would have gotten two 10’s and busted, meaning everyone else on the table would probably win. But because they played differently, most other people on the table would have lost.
Based on this one hand, the player has caused others to loose money, although no one would know before the dealer played. Of course, not following the rules could just as easily turn a winning hand for the dealer into a losing one, but the other players don’t care about that as much as someone who has just lost them money. And people can get quite superstitious when it comes to gambling with real money, so it’s best not to piss them off.
You def are trying to win your hand but you aren’t necessarily playing against the other players but everyone is certainly playing against the dealer b/c if he/she loses then everyone wins. So…it can kind of be an implicit team thing of joining in on the campaign to beat the dealer and if this looks like it might be the case – in certain hands where, say, the dealer has strong chance of going bust – then it can suck real bad if someone is really selfish or ignorant and blows the whole thing by getting a card that would’ve perhaps busted the dealer like a Q
So many people here who don’t even know the rules to blackjack, let alone how the strategies and probabilities actually work. The answer to the question is simply that gamblers tend to be superstitious, and anyone else’s actions do not affect their own probability of winning in the slightest.
Mathematically it basically doesn’t matter. You’d get a random card either way.
I suppose, in principle, if you are card-counting, and the ‘count’ is good, then another player hitting one more time is slightly bad for you, because that will probably move the count towards neutral (because, on average, it is always neutral, and at the extremes, most card draws will push it towards neutral).
But, just as often, the other player who is hitting more than they ‘should’ will do it when the count is ‘bad’, hence getting the count closer to neutral, which helps the card-counter.
Well, the odds of them getting a card *can* change.
Statistically, you don’t split tens, ever. And a deck being ten-rich is very good for the players. So somebody splitting tens can have a chance to draw more tens, which they might then split…. giving them a chance of winning more in the short term but with worse overall odds. So somebody doing this can actually deplete the deck of tens quickly if they get a lucky streak. This is really mostly true with tens, since there’s more of them in the deck and splitting them is such a terrible move anyway.
In most cases, though, it’s just confirmation bias “oh you drew the x that would have busted the dealer” and ignoring the times that they drew the card that would have let the dealer win.
Dealer here. It doesn’t matter, these comments are rooted in basic strategy and the average blackjack player thinks that if the almighty laws of basic strategy are held then they will be able to beat the casino! The reality is just about everybody who is going to say something about how another person played their hand, doesn’t play perfect basic strategy either… It’s just idiots calling other people idiots.
At the end of the day; it’s your money and you can play it however you want, and a good dealer will back you up on that. There is no “screwing up the shoe” it’s all the illusion of control. Craps players are the same way and they make me LOL, but that’s a whole nother topic.
It makes no difference. “Pro” blackjack players can just sometimes be jerks.
If you’re in Vegas (only place I’ve seen it), try Arena Blackjack. All the fun of live cards being dealt; none of the pressure from other players. Plus lower minimum bets.
Oh, some people are intense about this!
Was in Vegas, 1 seat open at the far right of the table..I sit down and the guys screams in my face that now I’m ‘stealing his cards’. Grabs his chips and storms off. Even the dealer was like woah
It’s difference in how they perceive luck.
You either see the stack of cards has having a set order and if delt properly everyone gets the card they were destined to get. “You took the dealers bust card”
Or you see it as Schrödinger’s cards were the order doesn’t matter because each card is 100% random so “the dealer always had a xx% chance of getting yy card”
The problem is if everyone plays “the right way” it’s viewed as the luck of the draw and no one is responsible. If you play like it’s Schrödinger’s deck then everyone gets to play “what if”.
It’s like when you’re playing Monopoly and need to roll a 9 to get the last property you need, but the guy before you rolls a 9. He’s stolen your 9, he’s ruined the game for you!
If that seems stupid to you, then congratulations: you understand probability better than the blackjack players who complain about their fellow players’ moves.
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