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Originally posted by MetaMan
why the hell would you hit an 18 with a dealers ace? the only low cards left to help you are the ones u want the dealer to pull.
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there are a few problems with your post.
1. if you are playing 8 decks, 416 cards and you take a few out, there are not only low cards left.
2. If there were only low cards left, it would be candy to pull a 2 or 3
3. You dont want the dealer to pull low cards, low cards are good for the dealer.
And to answer your question, the reason i would want to hit a soft 18 against the dealers ace is that the statistical odds say that i will loose less money if i do so. for me thats a pretty good reason.
Not all decisions are there to make you win, a lot of the time it is like if i stand i will loose 42% of the time, but if i hiot i will only loose 17% of the time. The decisions are about minimising your losses as much as maximising yoiur wins.
If you play professionally, for each 20 casino outings you have, you8 are expected to come home in front 11 times, in addition, your wins are expeected to be about 205 bigger than your losses