It's also to remind accredited as well as aspiring wagering whizzes that differences between right and wrong, good and bad, strong and weak may be both very small and highly subjective. The officially sanctioned criterion for ranking the quality of casino bets is house advantage or edge. The best propositions for solid citizens are those on which the casinos theoretically rake off the least. But, strictly in terms of percentages, options might be so close to one another that an act of faith in some anonymous authority's arithmetic rather than intuition built on a person's own experience is needed to make the distinction. This hand is a bummer no matter how it's executed.
Basic strategy is to hit since the expectation is then to lose less.
First, four cents per dollar is under the radar, especially when masked by the noise of gives and takes during a session. Fourth, some bettors prefer staying in contention and awaiting the dealer's finish, to risking early loss. They merely show that the penalty for standing is small and explain why it's done so often. Probability underlies the games, but utility drives the gamblers. One strategy isn't ideal simply because it involves low-edge bets unlikely to exhaust a bankroll during a normal session.