“Hitting and Standing” strategy is one of the Blackjack game strategis. The basic hitting and standing strategy says “Hit at anything below 12 and Stand at anything above 16”. If you have points between 12 and 16 – hit if the dealer has a point value between 7 and Ace (11) and stand when it’s below 7.

There is another strategy called “Hitting and Standing with soft totals”. A soft total is the total made out of an Ace and another value card. It was mentioned earlier that Ace can have 1 or 11 point. Now the strategy says that if you have an ace without a 10 value card, you can either hit when the soft total is 17 or less points or stand if the soft total is 19 or 20. When the dealer has a 4 or 5, then it’s good to double if the soft total is 17 or less.

We have discussed three strategies of the Blackjack game earlier. This will be the fourth one in the queue. One of the strategies is called the “Doubling Down” strategy. Doubling Down strategy has been discussed in the earlier discussion, but it was for the soft totals. This doubling down strategy is a different one. The basic strategies that come into play for double down are – never down double down at a value less than 8, always double down when it’s 11 and when you have a 10 with dealer having 2 to 9.

There is another strategy called “Splitting”. There are basic rules that come into play for the Splitting strategy – always split the 8s and Aces and never split 4s, 5s and 10 value cards.

When using these strategies carefully and consistently help you play the game with success and also to win more money.

Card counting is a very important aspect not only for the Blackjack game but also for all other card games too. The basic theory of card counting in the Blackjack game is trying to determine the likelihood of the next card to come in. Let’s take a simple example – let say if a game of Blackjack is being played with one deck of 52 cards. In that case, when the game begins, the chance of first card being an Ace is 4 in 52. When 12 out of 13 cards are being dealt and there is no Ace, then the chance of the last card being the Ace is high. Now if there are 40 cards left in the deck and out of those 4 are Ace, then the chance for being an Ace will be 1 in every 10. Even though the casinos use multiple decks to stop the card counting, but a simple card counting strategy called “Plus or Minus” system can be handy