What do you say to a guy like this?

I have a friend. He has said numerous times that "blackjack is a great game because the house edge is only 0.5 percent." The guy refuses to split eights vs. a dealer's 9 or higher. "I don't want to lose twice as much money." He stands on all soft 18's. He refuses to double an 11 vs. 10, "too risky." He never splits nines, "I don't want to break up my strong 18." He doubles A3 vs. 3.

What in the world would make him say that the house edge is only 0.5 percent?

Who flat bets. His disadvantage is probably more. Try to get him to play craps and learn how to shoot from www.dicecoach.com or from www. Goldentouchcraps.com. I think Stanford Wong took leasons from dice coach but I read that he learned from GTC. U can make him go w/ u and if he wins ge has to split it w/ u/

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With his strategy variations his EV is -.61% vs the usual TD EV of -0.41%.

So make sure he eats at home instead of having a value meal once or twice for every $1000 he's betting so he can feel better about making himself more comfortable at the BJ table :)

Print all the responses in this thread and let him digest them.

Dear Mr. Friend of Security Risk:

We love to have ploppy mentality players like you because you help to build us more casinos so we can extract money from them. However, we also wish to invite you to participate in this open forum here at BJ21.com. This is your invitation to learn how really to play the game properly and also rid yourself of all your ploppy mentality and superstitions.

Until you change your habbits, you are destined to only contribute to casino wealth. The choice is yours. Learn or burn.

Stealth Bomber

that all the information you're giving him is verifiable. His reasons are sensible but can easially explained away. If he still won't consider what you're telling him then at least have him do what I do to get my EV up.

When I go to Vegas I always pack two bags. One is filled with clothes and the other is filled with sandwiches. I always keep one sandwich in my breast pocket to eat while walking between casinos.
This renews my energy and gives me my exercise at the same time.