Tips on Splitting & Doubling Down in Blackjack

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Carlos Ramos Jr. coming to you on behalf of Expert Village and today we're talking about the game of blackjack. We've gone over a bunch of strategies to help increase the chances of winning and everyone at the table actually beating the house. If everyone plays by these strategies your chances actually statically do rise but it takes discipline and it takes a little bit of skills and strategic strategies. So we've just talked about when to split, now we're going to play that hand through because it gets to my next topic, my next option you can do and that's a doubling down after you split, okay. Now you can do that but you can only do it once, alright so we just split the 9's and wow we got an 11 here, there's an opportunity to not make double the money but now double here and double here, so now you can make four times the money. So now you tell the dealer hey I want to double down on this hand alone, alright not bad you're fine. You see this, there's a 16 a 16 you want to play this exactly the same as it was solo okay. So what do you do? You want to wave that off, you wave both of them off and let's hope that the dealer is going to bust okay, that dealer's going to remember the ace is a 1 so that's 15 and yes he does bust and you just made a boat load of cash if you're playing for money and of course this person won as well. "