found best place to practice

Anybody looking for a good way to practice their basic strategy, I just found this site:
http://www.hitorstand.net

As I wrote on the beginner BJ page, the game doesn't include 3-card strategy i.e. soft 18, but otherwise it's an sweet game - great graphics and presentation. It gives you a score based on your percentage of correct moves.

is a great site. It has been around for quite a while. It was originally .com, but I believe someone else somehow managed to take possession of that web address so Neil had to change it to hitorstand.net.

It is an excellent, free site with very nice graphics. I am particularly impressed that the dealer's hand has a shadow on the table. Stanford provides a link to it under the "Other links" on the left side of the page.

If you click on the "Normal" play mode, you will not have a time limit to your decisions, and you will see a normal deck distribution of cards. If you click on the "Difficult" mode, you will have a time limit, and you will be dealt a much higher distribution of aces to make your decisions a little more difficult. Either way, if you have a perfect score, you can play a timed bonus round and have your handle posted if you do very well.

Neil Halloran should be commended for providing such a fine and fun site absolutely free.

This is a fine site. The graphics are superb.

I played a "normal" game of 20 hands. It was just like being at a table in Las Vegas; I scored 100%, and lost $65 of my $100 buy-in.

they have a great game for BS and stanford will get a penny for a click through...well almost a penny

basic strategy at HitorStand is for splits it will accept as correct either basic strategy for DAS or No DAS. There is a different basic strategy for "DAS" and "No DAS" and this site doesn't acknowledge the difference.

...on your kitchen table with real, actual cards, especially if you emulate how the cards are actually dealt, handled and stacked by actual dealers in actual casinos.

I find this is the best way to develop the correct mental reflexes, and the *only* way to develop skill in estimating the number of uplayed decks/half-decks which is essential to learning how to calculate the TC quickly and accurately.

MHO