Product Description

This new Blackjack Basic (Playing) Strategy card for 4-8 Decks is a blackjack player's dream come true. The laminated, six-panel, tri-fold card with rounded corners devotes four panel sides to covering the possible rule combinations of allowing or not allowing doubling down after a split, and the dealer hitting or standing on soft 17. Thus the card contains four playing strategies to allow you to choose the correct playing strategy for the rules that are in effect where you play.

The strategies display color-coded decision cells in addition to showing the text of the decision so you can choose which way you learn best. Also, each strategy panel is section-coded to facilitate learning the most important decisions first. Surrender is included among the decisions, and footnotes provide alternatives when decisions are not allowed. The 3.5" x 5" panel size makes possible larger text than on other strategy cards and three-letter (not confusing one-letter) decision abbreviations, yet the card still fits in your pocket.

End panels, which contain slits, are designed to fold in both directions and to lay flat to make it easy for you to quickly refer to the strategy you wish to use. One panel contains a pithy, insightful discussion of the playing decisions to help new players learn how to play the game; another panel provides a table which shows the House Edge for each of four rule combinations.

About 99% of blackjack players do not use the correct Basic Strategy. By using this Blackjack 6·7·8 strategy card, players will now be able to play almost even with the house.

Blackjack 6-7-8 strategy cards are also available for 1 Deck, 2 Decks, and Counter (as in "Card Counter") Basic, 4-8 Decks. The titles of the four different cards are color-coded (red, purple, blue, and green) so you can easily and quickly distinguish one card from another.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #487585 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-25
• Binding: Cards

Henry Tamburin, Blackjack Insider Newsletter, September 2003
Perfect strategy at your fingertips. You've never seen strategy cards like this before.

Anthony Curtis, Las Vegas Advisor, September 2003
These cards are hot.

About the Author
Hal Marcus has studied the game of blackjack for over 25 years. He has combined his expertise at blackjack with his intensive math education followed by 30 years of computer programming experience to create this blackjack strategy card, a tool to enable anyone to play almost even with the "house".

Customer Reviews

Pluses and Minuses to these cards
First of all, don't get me wrong. I think that a fair amount of thought went into these cards before they slapped a $5/set price tag on them however I wouldn't rate these as 4 or 5 stars personally. Why?

PROS:
1) LARGE: These are large laminated cards that could withstand liquid spills at the table and are easy to read when your eyes are bleary and it's 3AM in the morning in the casino.
2) COLOR: The colors on these cards make them easy to read. Many cards lack the color and only have H, S, P, U on them.

CONS:
1) ONLY 1 SHOE TYPE? They charge $5 for 4-8 deck shoes, then charge another $5 for 2 deck, then charge another $5 for 1 deck. I don't know about you but that kind of reeks of an overcharge. If anything they should have just packaged them up as $9.99 for all 3 sets.
2) ORGANIZATION: This might be a personal preference on the basis of books I've read but the player starting hands go top to bottom from 17 down to 8, the do A-9 down to A-2, then pairs from 10-10 to 2-2.
...I REALLY, REALLY HATE THIS. Again, this might just be a personal preference but back in the day, I was taught with tables that started with player hands (top to bottom) 8-11, then A-2 to A-9, then pairs of 2-2 to 10-10. The organization is completely upside down compared to what's historically been in my head and in my books, rendering these cards pretty much useless to me, so while I'm giving the cards 3 stars on the merit of their potential value to someone else, I'd return all 3 sets if this wasn't such a cheap purchase in the final analysis.

Again, the author clearly put a lot of time and effort into insuring that a person's $5 bucks were well spent and I don't want to knock them for that, but for me, because the tables were formatted differently from what I'd learned and practiced years ago, they weren't very useful for me or the people I teach who also use the same table organizational structure.

Blackjack Strategy Cards - Don't Leave Home Without Them
These four basic strategy cards fit in your shirt pocket yet contain everything you need to optimize your odds under virtually all table conditions. Cards work for 1, 2, and 4-8 deck games covering most variations of house rules. Give yourself the best chance to beat the casino. Use these cards and experience how much fun blackjack can be when you play like the pros.

(Note to Amazon - Please post this review for all four strategy cards. Thanks.

Math not luck
Las Vegas has a saying, "players depend on luck, casinos depend on math". Well, here's your chance to almost even those odds to within 1/2%. These blackjack strategy cards (all 4 for 1, 2, or 4-8(2) decks) do the math for you and stretch your money a long, long way. You will get your money back in the first hour of play and wish you had had them a long time ago. If you play blackjack, this is the one item you should take with you. And you don't even have to think, pretty nice ugh.