I almost got into a fight at the Hard Rock Seminole Casino in Florida.

[GELATINOUS CUBE]

Haha.
Sorry-cheme-i-just-get-into-fights-randomly-for-no-reason...

I-never-fight-in-casinos-well-actually-once...
This-guy-gave-me-a-light-but-he-raised-the-lighter-up-and-kinda-burned-me
or-maybe-the-flame-just-came-close-to-me...
So-i-fugged-him-up-and-then-later-again...
And-blacklisted-him
but-it-might-have-been-an-accident-and-he-was-old-so-i-went-kinda-easy

maybe-it-was-just-an-accident-ya-know??

[chachi]

It is to your advantage to take 1 hit on 12 against a dealer card of 2 or 3. Assuming every card is equally likely to come, you have 4 cards than won't do shit for you (A,2,3,4), 5 cards that will give you at least 17 (5,6,7,8,9), and 4 cards that will bust you (10,J,Q,K). You also know the dealer will take at least 1 more hit regardless of what they have in the hole.

So you basically take the hit knowing you will bust about 31% of the time and get at least 17 about 38% of the time. The remaining 31% of the time your hand won't matter because you need the dealer to bust for you to win. So 69% of the time your hand gets better or stays equivalent by hitting rather than standing.

What cheme said ...

[HauntingTheHoly]

Yo, CUBE! What the **** is going on with your hyphen key?

[Cheme82]

Haha. Sorry-cheme-i-just-get-into-fights-randomly-for-no-reason... I-never-fight-in-casinos-well-actually-once... This-guy-gave-me-a-light-but-he-raised-the-lighter-up-and-kinda-burned-me or-maybe-the-flame-just-came-close-to-me... So-i-fugged-him-up-and-then-later-again... And-blacklisted-him but-it-might-have-been-an-accident-and-he-was-old-so-i-went-kinda-easy maybe-it-was-just-an-accident-ya-know??

Maybe he had a flamethrower for a lighter.

[Cheme82]

Yo, CUBE! What the **** is going on with your hyphen key?

I think his space bar doesn't work.

[wtf]

two factors should come into play;

* what is the rest of the table doing? all with < 17 and sticking?
* guy with big bet, what is he showing, did he take a card?

if everyone is staying you should have stayed and all live or died together imho

[Cheme82]

So if you had 12 and the dealer was showing a 7 and a big bettor stood on 16 and everyone else stood on their stiffs then you would stand on your 12 so that you could all live or die together?

[chachi]

two factors should come into play;

* what is the rest of the table doing? all with < 17 and sticking?
* guy with big bet, what is he showing, did he take a card?

if everyone is staying you should have stayed and all live or died together imho