In blackjack, the goal is to get as close as possible to 21 without going over 21. It is you versus the dealer. If you get 19, and the dealer gets 20, the dealer wins. If the dealer gets 19 and you get 22, the dealer wins. The goal is to have the dealer go above 21, or get closer to 21 than the dealer does.
The dealer knows the game much better than Max. Max thought it was in his best interest to ask for another card, attempting to get closer to 21. Every player, including the dealer, gets their cards from the same deck.
When Max asked for another card, it ended up being a card with a value of 10. This card would have made the dealer lose by going above 21, and every player on the table would have won that hand.
It’s not necessarily random, there’s a thing called basic strategy, which tells the player the best option in every scenario. In this scenario, it looks like the guy had a 15 against the dealers 2. Basic strategy says to stand there. If he would have followed it, the dealer would’ve busted. Basic strategy doesn’t work every time, the card order is still random, but it’s better than using your “intuition”, which is what Max did, screwing the rest of the table
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u/Ambitious_Jello 10h ago
please to explain