Multi card stiff.

Is hitting a multi card (4 or more) stiff in a 6D game the best move in a crappy situation? Or is there a point in which you stay, like in a SD game?

Thanks

About the only multi-card play of even small value in 6 deck is stand on 16 vs 10 if you have a 4 or 5 in your hand. Other than that, play basic strategy if you are not counting.

Are you counting, or just playing basic strategy?

If counting, follow the count indices, period.

If using basic strategy, I have run the numbers for the 6 deck game and found the only situation that "matters" is when you have a 3 or more card 16 looking at a dealer's Ten.

The two rules in this situation are:

Stand, UNLESS:

1. Your hand contains a Six and at least one other card greater than a Five.

Examples: 646 and 637 hit; 655 stands.

There is one exception to this rule (hit 63322, if I recall correctly), but it's not worth remembering.

2. Your hand contains a Ten and no other card greater than a Three.

Examples: X33 and X32A hit; X42 stands.

Coot,

Please provide detailed information on your sims? Software, game rules used?

it is a program, written in 'C,' which performs a combinatorial analysis of all possible card combinations excluding the cards in the player's hand and the dealer's up-card.

For partial confirmation, I refer you to the section "Fine Points of Basic Strategy" in Revere's book, "Playing Blackjack as a Business."

I have never heard of this before. How can a hand that adds up to 16 with a 4 or 5 in your hand be ok vs dealer 10. Please let me know.

Capt

What you are describing is for 1 deck not 6

...almost any number of decks.

of the "effects of removal" of that 4 or 5... cards YOU would like to draw to your 16! More pronounced in single deck.

I don't think it is necessarily "OK" for you, just better to bank on the dealer busting.

So you are saying if i play a 6 deck game and get 5,7,4 v 10 i should stand?
Well that is completely wrong,

>So you are saying if i play a 6 deck game and get 5,7,4 v 10 i should stand?<

Yes! Remember, we're talking Basic Strategy ONLY here. If you're counting, stick with the indices of your counting system.

There are two things at work here:

If your hand contains a Six, that is one less Six available for the dealer to have under his Ten. Even with six decks, in most cases that makes enough difference to make standing the better EV play.

If your hand contains Four(s) and/or Five(s), those are cards YOU need to make a hand and the DEALER would need if he's got a stiff hidden under his Ten.

I will repeat the two rules for you:

STAND a 3- or more-card 16 vs the dealer's Ten EXCEPT:

1. When your hand contains a Six and another card >= Six. The *only* exception is 63322 (note the exception contains no Fours and no Fives); and

2. When your hand contains a Ten and no other card > Three.

Also, please note this is one of the relatively rare occasions when SOTSOG and I agree on something.