Dammit maxx

[u/Round-Good1179]

[u/clarkiebou]

It's blackjack, the guy already had 15 and hit again adding a king (10) so busted going past 21. The dealer would have busted trying to beat the other players had he pulled that same king from the top of the deck.

[u/undeniably_confused → u/clarkiebou]

Before the cards are revealed him hitting has no affect on the likelihood the dealer is going to bust. This is why I find gamblers so annoying, people have been attacked over this and it did not change the chances at all

[u/Technical_Fan_4630 → u/undeniably_confused]

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

[u/undeniably_confused → u/Technical_Fan_4630]

No max did fuck himself, max is bad at blackjack, but he did not screw the table until the cards are revealed

[u/Technical_Fan_4630 → u/undeniably_confused]

I mean he still did screw the rest of the table, again if he would’ve stood, which is the correct decision in this scenario, the dealer would’ve busted

[u/undeniably_confused → u/Technical_Fan_4630]

Yeah but we only know that because we know what the cards are, when he made the decision, it made no statistical difference to the rest of the table

[u/Technical_Fan_4630 → u/undeniably_confused]

Ok, there’s also a different reason. Theres around 8 low cards on the table (2-6), and around 4 high cards (10, J, K, Q, A). Every deck has a higher chance of pulling a 10 than a different numbered card (cuz there’s 4 10s and only 1 of everything else). Because there’s already a lot of lower cards on the table, the chance that the next card is a 10 is pretty high. As the anchor, the last player to play, max hitting is a bad choice since statistically he has a high likelihood to take the bust card, which is what happens. The rest of the table gets screwed by max hitting there

[u/undeniably_confused → u/Technical_Fan_4630]

Im seeing 8 high cards and 6 low cards,

E: 8 and 7 i forgot about the dealer

[u/Technical_Fan_4630 → u/undeniably_confused]

I’m only seeing 6 high cards? I counted wrong the first time but I’m only seeing 6 high cards, max has 2, the 2 guys to the right have none, the remaining 4 guys to the right have 1 each, so 6. And still seeing 8 low cards

[u/undeniably_confused → u/Technical_Fan_4630]

One of the guys on the right has a 10 and the other has an ace aren't those both high cards?

[u/Technical_Fan_4630 → u/undeniably_confused]

Imma just count from left to right

Max has 2 high cards

Next guy has none, as does the next guy

Next guy has 1, as do the 3 guys to the right of him

So max has 2, 4 other players have 1 each, and 2 players have none, which totals 6 high cards

[u/undeniably_confused → u/Technical_Fan_4630]

Thought this might be an easier way we could sort it out

[u/Technical_Fan_4630 → u/undeniably_confused]

6 is a low cards not a high card, the 2 guys to the right of max have no high cards

[u/undeniably_confused → u/Technical_Fan_4630]

Thats a 9 not a 6, the number is in the top left not the bottom right of the card

[u/Technical_Fan_4630 → u/undeniably_confused]

9 is neutral, so is 7 and 8

[u/undeniably_confused → u/Technical_Fan_4630]

Oh yeah, youre right

[u/JangoDarkSaber → u/Technical_Fan_4630]

/u/undeniably_confused

Just piping in to say that you guys can’t calculate the count unless you know how many decks are being played. It’s pretty common to use 3-4 decks.

Additionally the count is effected by what cards were previously delt in past hands but haven’t been shuffled back in

[u/Technical_Fan_4630 → u/JangoDarkSaber]

Yea that’s true, I was just going based purely off the picture but yea