(In other words, play the multi-card hand as if it were an original two-card holding.)įor example, suppose you are dealt a 9-3 against a dealer’s 2 upcard in a six-deck game with Soft 17 and DAS.
Note: The blackjack strategy charts lists the player’s two-card hand total and a possible multi-card hand total as a result of hitting a previously different hand one or more times. Throughout the document I will refer to them as table and chart. The first is a black-and-white table and the second is a color-coded chart. (Note: The abbreviations also appear below each blackjack chart or table) HOW TO USE THE STRATEGY TABLESįor each set of rules, you’ll find two different ways that the basic strategy is presented. You don’t have to memorize the abbreviations they will become familiar to you after you begin to study the strategy charts. The following abbreviations are used in the blackjack strategy charts. There are four strategy tables and four charts for single-deck games to play blackjack.
