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A question often asked by new online blackjack players is when they should stand. The answer is obviously related to the fact that they may bust if they hit and ask for another card. If your hand value is 11 or less then there is no fear of busting. You will at most reach a hand value of 21 which is great. So you should never stand in this situation.

The problems start when your hand value is 12 or more. If you are at 12 then a hit of a 10 value card will result in a bust. At a rudimentary calculation you face a 32% chance of busting. However if you stand then you have a hand value of only 12. The chance of losing out to the dealer is significantly higher if you stand. Let us now take the other extreme. If your hand value is 20 then again by a rudimentary calculation you face and 92% chance of busting if you hit. For the intermediate hand values the chance of busting lies between 32% and 92%. So the question is at what hand value you should stop hitting.

Unfortunately, the answer is not straightforward. It depends to a large extent on the dealer’s face up card and whether you are holding a hard hand or soft hand. It also depends on the exact rules of the blackjack variant that you are playing to a smaller extent. The answer has been obtained after computer simulation of tens of thousands of deals. The optimum blackjack strategy for standing is briefly explained for an eight decks American Blackjack variant in which the dealer stands on soft 17 and checks for blackjack upfront.

If you hold a hard hand then the rules are as follows. For a value of 12 you stand only when the dealer has 4, 5 or 6. For values of 13 to 16 you stand when the dealer has 6 or less. You have to hit for higher dealer values because the dealer has a good chance of reaching near about 20. For values of 17 and above you always stand.

You can be more aggressive with a soft hand because if you exceed 21 you can convert an ace from 11 to 1. In this case you always hit up to a hand value of 17. You always stand for a hand value of 19 or more. With a hand value of 18 you stand if the dealer has 8 or less.

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There are certain table games that are considered to be a part of the classic canon of games that will probably never go away. In each of these games, there are certain sucker bets that people play from time to time that have a much worse payout rate and a much worse house advantage than almost anything else available. We want to point out the main sucker bets that you need to know about so that you can avoid them and stick to the bets that will give you better odds.

Roulette is a good game to start out with because almost every single bet in this game has the same house advantage and payout rate. In fact, if you play European roulette like you should, then there is no way to make a bet that does not have the same payout rate as everything else even though the level of risk and reward will be different. In American roulette, however, there's one bet that's different, and that's a bet on the cluster 0, 00, 1, 2 and 3. This is the worst bet available in American roulette and the only way to wager that doesn't have the same payout rate as everything else.

In Baccarat, you run into a similar sort of circumstance. The main three bets that all forms of Baccarat have are the banker bet, the player bet and the tie bet. While the player and banker bets are very close together in terms of payout rate at barely more than a one percent house advantage for each, the tie bet has a much worse payout rate. In fact, the house advantage for this bet is in the 13-15 percent range depending on how many decks the game is using making it one of the worst table games bets you can find anywhere.

Blackjack is another game that gets a lot of attention as being a classic table game, and it's not without its own sucker bets. The main sucker bet most of the time is the surrender option. People tend to use this option a lot more than they should. In fact, the only time you should do it in most games is when you have a hard 16 against a dealer who holds exactly a ten or an ace. You can do it more in some games, but for the most part, these are the only times you should do it.

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