Mindsets and Blackjack Betting Strategies

Blackjack betting strategies must go with the right mindset. Each play strategy has a mindset to follow to be effective. And the play strategy has to go with the right betting strategy for the win.

For instance, it is estimated that in most card dealing there is a 31 percent possibility that the card dealt to us will be a ten or a face card. Tens and face cards all have the same value, which is a ten. Of 52 cards 4 are tens and 12 are face cards. That's 16 cards valued at ten. Hence, we must always assume that the next card hit will probably be a ten.

When the dealer's face up card is 7, we assume he has a 17. This would affect our play and blackjack betting strategies. Against a 17 and we have a card total of 15, we're better off betting minimum when we hit. Remember, the face down card may be a 10 and our hit card may also be a 10. There are 16 tens. We need a 6 to beat the dealer, but there are only 4 6s. With this scenario, we can't increase our bets.

If we're dealt a pair, we automatically split them—just don't split a pair of 10 cards or 5 or 4. What we split are As and 8s. Splitting entails staking a bet equal to our first stake and play like we got two hands. Thus, we see that the mindset of splitting has an accompanying bet strategy and play strategy which should consider what card the dealer shows.

Doubling down means doubling the bet on a sure hand plus a last card hit. Most casinos permit this betting strategy. Once we hit it'd be the dealer's turn. Be sure to have a winning hand when we double down. This means we consider carefully the probable hand of the dealer by assuming what the dealer has. Staking is a common blackjack betting strategy and they're mostly effective. But if we double our bets when the dealer proves to have a stronger hand, it will prove disastrous to us.

The Martingale mindset and play strategy says we can recover our losses by betting high each time, no matter if the hand wins or loses. If it wins we recover losses plus a small profit in hand. If it loses, we bet higher.

Mindsets in blackjack assume the probably and then follow that up by a play and blackjack betting strategies.