Effective Blackjack Drills

Here are some effective blackjack drills that can be performed at home:

Take a 2 of any suit from the deck and refer to it as if it was the dealers up-card. Deal yourself a hand. Play the hand, deciding to hit, stand, split or double down, and than check if your decisions were correct on your basic strategy chart. Keep 2 as the dealers up-card and play another hand, collating it with the basic strategy. Keep playing until you finish the deck, then replace the 2 with a 3 and play the whole deck again. After a 3 proceed with a 4, and so on until the Ace.
Select a difficult players hand, such as two 6s. Turn over a card from the deck and consider it the dealers up-card. Decide on the action to perform with your hand. Keep the players hand and turn on another dealers up card. Keep doing so until the end of the deck. When the deck is over, choose another hand for the player.
Deal three hands for three players and the dealers up-card. Play all three hands using the basic strategy. Do not play the dealers hand, but make sure the strategy you used was correct.
Take any counting system you like, turn over all cards in the deck one by one and state their value. For example, using Hi-opt I, state minus-one, when you turn over 3 to 6, state zero, when the card is 2, 7, 8, 9 or Ace and state plus-one, when a face card or a 10 appears. Do not use this drill until you remember all card values by heart.
Now do the same thing as in the previous drill, but keep the running count of the cards. Start with zero and add the value of each card to the count. As the deck ends, your running count must be zero, otherwise you have made a mistake. At the beginning, say the count silently to yourself as you turn over the cards. When a neutral card appears, repeat the previous value.
Increase your counting speed by mentally saying one instead of plus one, mi-one instead of minus one and z instead of zero.
When you feel like you can proceed further with the card counting, take the deck to your left hand and push cards with your right hand, keeping the count. At the beginning, push two cards at once and learn to count 2 card hands. Later on you can proceed with 3 card, 4 card and 5 card hands, but do not do this until you feel comfortable with 2 card hands.

7 Blackjack Drills to Polish the Game

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