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Mid-Game Blackjack Strategy



Mid-Game Blackjack Strategy
If you’re playing a 25-hand blackjack tournament, you’ve reached the middle stage at about hand 12 or 13. For the purposes of this discussion, we’ll call the middle stages hands 13-20. These eight blackjack hands are key to your success in the tournament, hopefully positioning you for the end game. Even if you make some mistakes or get unlucky here in the middle, you still have the final five hands to catch back up. Here are some helpful hints: Get close to the lead. A good blackjack tournament goal is to get within one-half of a max bet of the table leader by the end of this stage. Let’s say that one player has been betting big early, pulled ahead and is now betting the minimum. You can do some quick calculations and figure out how much you need to bet in the next several hands to get within a half-max bet of this player. If this player has $2,500 on hand 15 and you have $1,800 and he begins betting $25, you can bet about $200 to try and creep up slowly to the leader. Even if you lose, you can bet $200 again on the next hand as you still have time to reach your goal of getting within the half-max ($250) bet of the leader by hand 21. You may eventually have to throw out a $500 max bet and hope for the best if you lose a few of these $200 bets. Note that it’s not that important to have the lead in the middle and can actually be advantageous to not have the lead with five hands to go. That’s because the trailing players in a blackjack tournament tend to pay the most attention to the leader’s chip count and focus on him. If you’re second, you stand a chance of flying under the radar for the time being. Don’t chase the big bettors until late in the stage. If there are a few big bettors in the blackjack tournament, don’t panic and begin chasing them with your own big bets early in the middle stage. If they happen to win a few big bets early they may seem invincible, but odds will usually bring them back to earth with some big losses as well. If they bet big and keep winning, you may have to start chasing, but wait until the last few hands of the middle stage to see what develops. Calculate your final hand betting position. Do this on hand 20, the last hand of the middle stage of the blackjack tournament. Knowing your betting position on the last hand will affect your betting strategies as you enter the end game of the blackjack tournament. You will need to try and open up a lead if you bet first, but can hang back and play more conservatively if you bet last on the final hand. Remember that good play in the middle of a blackjack tournament can lead to a win.
By Johnny Kampis- Blackjack Expert

 





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