Topic: Which one is easier to win at Blackjack or Poker? - page 2. (Read 1343 times)
definitely poker, provided one is both skilled and experienced at the game. blackjack is more or less a game against the house, with other players potentially involved, and more then likely that casino will have it designed so that it benefits them (the house) in the future. however, in poker, where skill over other players is a major factor at play, its very possible to consistently win the right hands, and fold the bad ones.
I have not played a hand of poker in my life so I will take everybody's sound advice here and not go against these high rollers at all the poker sites. 
I will stick with blackjack cause it is fast paced and better to play for not so experienced card players. I believe this is where you learn the basics of how to play at any card game.
But I always wondered: Does it matter in blackjack how many players are playing at your table? Does it lessen your odds to have a winning hand if there are more players sitting in at the table?
1st position or last position should matter either I would imagine.
I will stick with blackjack cause it is fast paced and better to play for not so experienced card players. I believe this is where you learn the basics of how to play at any card game.
But I always wondered: Does it matter in blackjack how many players are playing at your table? Does it lessen your odds to have a winning hand if there are more players sitting in at the table?
1st position or last position should matter either I would imagine.
depends on how many decks and how often they shuffle.
Most games I have seen online have an 8 deck shoe and it reshuffles all 8 decks after each hand. When that is done, you will not see enough cards in one game for it to change the strategy. In a real casino or with 1 deck, the more cards you see, the more you know about what cards are left and can use that to adjust your strategy accordingly. That's called counting cards and is very difficult.
Number of players/order doesn't matter. If you beat the dealer you win, if you don't you lose. Doesn't matter what anyone else does, and the dealer's actions won't be impacted either because they hit or stay only based on their cards, they don't care what anyone else has.
Some people (foolishly) would rather go last so they can do the "right" thing and not let someone else "screw up" the cards. this is foolish because they can "screw it up" just a badly from anywhere at the table, and in my experience the number of times someone "making a mistake" screws everyone over and saves everyone tends to balance out. But, if it makes you feel better, you should go last.
I have not played a hand of poker in my life so I will take everybody's sound advice here and not go against these high rollers at all the poker sites.
I will stick with blackjack cause it is fast paced and better to play for not so experienced card players. I believe this is where you learn the basics of how to play at any card game.
But I always wondered: Does it matter in blackjack how many players are playing at your table? Does it lessen your odds to have a winning hand if there are more players sitting in at the table?
1st position or last position should matter either I would imagine.
I will stick with blackjack cause it is fast paced and better to play for not so experienced card players. I believe this is where you learn the basics of how to play at any card game.
But I always wondered: Does it matter in blackjack how many players are playing at your table? Does it lessen your odds to have a winning hand if there are more players sitting in at the table?
1st position or last position should matter either I would imagine.
In one of those two games you must place your bet before you see your cards. In the other game you can bet after you have seen your cards.
I used to play blackjack. Now I play poker. I don't play blackjack at all anymore.
I used to play blackjack. Now I play poker. I don't play blackjack at all anymore.
Yeah, BJ is easiest to learn. But it's easier to win at poker once you learn even the basics. In poker you also have more control over how much you can win as well as how much you can lose. When you have a good hand, bet out. If you have a shit hand, you can fold without having to put any more money in the pot.
If you keep getting bad cards in poker, you can just keep folding without putting any money in other than the blinds and antes. If you get a bad run of cards in BJ, you just have to keep eating shit.
If you keep getting bad cards in poker, you can just keep folding without putting any money in other than the blinds and antes. If you get a bad run of cards in BJ, you just have to keep eating shit.
I have done both but personally i more like playing blackjack than poker and last time i did it win 57500 doge from directbet giveaway 
Both are difficult even if you aren't a beginner, you will still lose as these games are more of luck. I notice lately that when I get to call, players tend to increase the pot size and they always win. Maybe its just be but same goes for almost all gambling sites.
Blackjack is the easiest game but the payout is not good enough, may be 2.5 if you hit blackjack, otherwise poker with small amount you can win big too, it is not as easy as blackjack but you really need some skill and a little bit luck when you are in poker and that is why it looks poker harder than blackjack
Blackjack is easier. Less variables and possible results.
Make the dealer bust. Like Phildo says, if the dealer busts, everyone else wins.
Play consistent. Figure out the 'laws' you want to play by and stick to them. For example, I stay on 16 rather than the textbook 17. My reasoning is only 5 (ace through 5) of 14 cards will not bust me. Let the dealer bust. Not you.
Make the dealer bust. Like Phildo says, if the dealer busts, everyone else wins.
Play consistent. Figure out the 'laws' you want to play by and stick to them. For example, I stay on 16 rather than the textbook 17. My reasoning is only 5 (ace through 5) of 14 cards will not bust me. Let the dealer bust. Not you.
That's just bad advice. No textbook says to hit every 16 and stay on every 17, that's what the dealer does, not what you should do.
The first key to winning at blackjack is realizing that when you have a 16 and the dealer has a 10 you are fucked. There is no difference in how much money you lose when you bust and how much money you lose when the dealer turns over a 17-20 while you are standing with a 16.
The strategy for blackjack is out there. It doesn't guarantee that you will win, but people have looked at all the probabilities and expected values for every possible situation in blackjack and made tons of charts listing which option has the highest EV in every possible situation. There are many situations in blackjack where the option with the highest EV is still negative, but you are throwing even more money away than usual by not using basic strategy.
I stand corrected. I am not a "card shark" by any measure. The only true advice I was offering to OP was play consistently and allow the dealer to bust rather than yourself.
Letting the dealer bust is a good thing, but you don't need to be a card shark to look at the basic charts and basic math of the game. The dealer is a lot more likely to bust when they have a 4,5,6 showing than when they have a 7,8,9,10,a showing. Hoping the dealer will bust when they are showing an ace is a bad strategy because it won't happen enough.
Blackjack but only at a casino. Don't play online, you'll lose with 20 and push with 21. lol
Blackjack is easier. Less variables and possible results.
Make the dealer bust. Like Phildo says, if the dealer busts, everyone else wins.
Play consistent. Figure out the 'laws' you want to play by and stick to them. For example, I stay on 16 rather than the textbook 17. My reasoning is only 5 (ace through 5) of 14 cards will not bust me. Let the dealer bust. Not you.
Make the dealer bust. Like Phildo says, if the dealer busts, everyone else wins.
Play consistent. Figure out the 'laws' you want to play by and stick to them. For example, I stay on 16 rather than the textbook 17. My reasoning is only 5 (ace through 5) of 14 cards will not bust me. Let the dealer bust. Not you.
That's just bad advice. No textbook says to hit every 16 and stay on every 17, that's what the dealer does, not what you should do.
The first key to winning at blackjack is realizing that when you have a 16 and the dealer has a 10 you are fucked. There is no difference in how much money you lose when you bust and how much money you lose when the dealer turns over a 17-20 while you are standing with a 16.
The strategy for blackjack is out there. It doesn't guarantee that you will win, but people have looked at all the probabilities and expected values for every possible situation in blackjack and made tons of charts listing which option has the highest EV in every possible situation. There are many situations in blackjack where the option with the highest EV is still negative, but you are throwing even more money away than usual by not using basic strategy.
I stand corrected. I am not a "card shark" by any measure. The only true advice I was offering to OP was play consistently and allow the dealer to bust rather than yourself.
I will suggest u to play poker on FaceBook first. Try cash game, and tournament game. Feel the game first and after that u can choose where to play for real money there is good places, for bitcoins or fiat. I suggested FB cause there u can experiment with diferent styles of playing without fear of loosing your money. Black Jack on other hand is game against the house, for me there is much more excitement in poker.
Blackjack is easier. Less variables and possible results.
Make the dealer bust. Like Phildo says, if the dealer busts, everyone else wins.
Play consistent. Figure out the 'laws' you want to play by and stick to them. For example, I stay on 16 rather than the textbook 17. My reasoning is only 5 (ace through 5) of 14 cards will not bust me. Let the dealer bust. Not you.
Make the dealer bust. Like Phildo says, if the dealer busts, everyone else wins.
Play consistent. Figure out the 'laws' you want to play by and stick to them. For example, I stay on 16 rather than the textbook 17. My reasoning is only 5 (ace through 5) of 14 cards will not bust me. Let the dealer bust. Not you.
That's just bad advice. No textbook says to hit every 16 and stay on every 17, that's what the dealer does, not what you should do.
The first key to winning at blackjack is realizing that when you have a 16 and the dealer has a 10 you are fucked. There is no difference in how much money you lose when you bust and how much money you lose when the dealer turns over a 17-20 while you are standing with a 16.
The strategy for blackjack is out there. It doesn't guarantee that you will win, but people have looked at all the probabilities and expected values for every possible situation in blackjack and made tons of charts listing which option has the highest EV in every possible situation. There are many situations in blackjack where the option with the highest EV is still negative, but you are throwing even more money away than usual by not using basic strategy.
Blackjack is at best, a break even game. It is not possible to win in the long run no matter what the books try and tell you. Poker is, ideally, a completely even game where everyone has the same chance of winning or losing. However, particularly at lower stakes, the rake (the amount of money a table takes out of the final pot) can create a negative expected value.
Poker for sure, it's easy af to be stupid and go all-in, and get a good hand.
i prefer poker,I cant really explain it but its just simpler and more skill oriented imo. blackjack is a alot about luck.
Blackjack is easier. Less variables and possible results.
Make the dealer bust. Like Phildo says, if the dealer busts, everyone else wins.
Play consistent. Figure out the 'laws' you want to play by and stick to them. For example, I stay on 16 rather than the textbook 17. My reasoning is only 5 (ace through 5) of 14 cards will not bust me. Let the dealer bust. Not you.
Make the dealer bust. Like Phildo says, if the dealer busts, everyone else wins.
Play consistent. Figure out the 'laws' you want to play by and stick to them. For example, I stay on 16 rather than the textbook 17. My reasoning is only 5 (ace through 5) of 14 cards will not bust me. Let the dealer bust. Not you.
Blackjack is almost always -ev and you are going against someone (the casino) with the odds stacked against you that has way more money than you so it's difficult to win.
Poker CAN be +ev, but you need to beat everyone else at the table, so it's harder to win 1 hand of poker than 1 hand of blackjack. It's possible that you can be better than the people you are playing against and/or that luck may be on your side with that deal.
For the most part it's 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other. if you have enough practice you can make money playing poker, but it takes lots of work, some luck, and enough money to survive the bad luck/better player that are inevitable.
Keep both as a type of entertainment until you figure out that you can't win or you feel that you might be good enough to continually win at poker.
Poker CAN be +ev, but you need to beat everyone else at the table, so it's harder to win 1 hand of poker than 1 hand of blackjack. It's possible that you can be better than the people you are playing against and/or that luck may be on your side with that deal.
For the most part it's 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other. if you have enough practice you can make money playing poker, but it takes lots of work, some luck, and enough money to survive the bad luck/better player that are inevitable.
Keep both as a type of entertainment until you figure out that you can't win or you feel that you might be good enough to continually win at poker.
I ask this question because I am learning to play Blackjack it is simple if you follow the standard rules of the game but there is some luck involved too.
I haven't tried my hand in Poker yet but wanted some suggestions before trying it out.
Wanted to get a pokerstars account is this not recommended for beginners?
I haven't tried my hand in Poker yet but wanted some suggestions before trying it out.
Wanted to get a pokerstars account is this not recommended for beginners?
I hardly play blackjack. When I do it I use no strategy and jut go for the luck factor.
As for poker is a amazing game, and you should really try it. You can go just for luck to, but that would be a waste, unless you were getting plenty of fun from it, and you were ok with that, but I prefer to try always try to improve my skill in poker, as you have plenty of room to do that.
As for where to play, why not start in the btc workd? I play at betcoing.ag and I really enjoy it.
I would say Blackjack it requires little luck or no skill as its a fast game to play and very entertaining. Decision making is easy in Blackjack always know exactly what to do in every given situation for a chance of winning.
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