Blackjack Soft Hand Hard Hand

Mar 17, 2006  Last week, we discussed refinements to the first three blackjack basic strategy rules. Those rules dealt with hard hands, that is, hands without an ace or hands with an ace that count as 1. The next two rules concern soft hands, or hands with an ace that counts as either a 1 or 11. These hands are. The Frequency of Occurrence of Hard and Soft Hands Additional Tips What about the advantage each of these hands can give the players? Not surprisingly, the most advantageous hand is the blackjack itself, followed by paired ten-value cards and soft 20 (these yield around 60% advantage), with hard 19 and 11 in tow (with an advantage of around 23%).

Hard And Soft In Blackjack

How to Play Soft Hands in Blackjack

Playing Soft Hands in Blackjack

This page consists of general advice about how to play soft hands with perfect basic strategy in blackjack. There are only seven hands you have to concern yourself with in this category, and soft hands will come up less frequently than hard hands. But it's still important that you play these hands correctly.

The first thing you need to understand about soft hands is that it's impossible to bust with a soft hand. There are no 'stiff' soft hands. But once the card total gets high enough that the ace must be counted as a one, the hand is no longer a soft hand; it's now a hard hand and should be played with the appropriate strategy for that hard total.

Hard Vs Soft Hand Blackjack

You'll almost always stand on a soft 18 or higher, and you'll always hit a soft 17 or lower. I go into more reasons why in the individual articles for how to play each hand.

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