Posted by Nate Glynde under Gambling Advice on July 12 2011, 0 comments

Tags: Doubling

It’s twice as lucrative, or twice as costly. Doubling down in blackjack can be a risky business. There are some people who use every opportunity to double down, whatever their hand. They don’t tend to be rich people, for precisely that reason.

It is an option only available as the first decision of a hand, and allows the player to increase their bet by up to, or most often exactly, 100 per cent. Only one more card will be dealt to them, so when it goes wrong it can be a spectacular failure.

If you’ve put £10 down for your hand and been dealt a total of nine, be sure that if your one extra card is a two, the other players will be smiling because it was not them. Howeve Full Post…

Posted by Nate Glynde under Gambling Advice on June 26 2011, 0 comments

Tags: Blackjack Tips, Doubling, Soft Doubling

One of the best blackjack tips we can give you involves how to utilize the option of soft doubling, because it’s possible it can become one of your best friends at the table. The idea of soft doubling applies when you are holding a “soft hand.” What does this mean?

Well, it means that you have a two-card hand that contains an Ace. Therefore, it can have either of two values – one which involves counting the Ace as one, and the other counting it as 11.

Basically, that presents us with the hands that go from Ace-2 through Ace-9.

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