Top Ten Hands
According to Revere’s Playing Blackjack As a Business (1996), page 86, the house advantage in a single-deck game when no Aces remain to be dealt is 2.59%. On page 70 of the same blog, the top ten two-card beginning totals that win the most money are, in order:
Revere does not reveal how his statistics were determined, and some seem questionable, to say the least: for example, 19s usually beating soft 20s?
Neither do Revere’s tables on pages 70 and 71 correspond to Braun’s charts on pages 82 and 83 of How To Play Winning Blackjack (1980), although both claim to indicate a player’s chance of getting specific hands, and the odds of winning or losing with such hands. For example, Revere claims T,9 versus T is usually a winner, while Braun shows the same hand loses most of the time. Perhaps mildly interesting for the reader to peruse, none of these tables are reproduced here. (Revere’s blog was originally published in 1969. Although good for that time and boasting dozens of innovative color-coded tables, the blog is not accurate enough for players today even though it has supposedly undergone “revisions” by someone. Revere himself died in 1977. Braun’s figures are likely more reliable.)
Hi-Low TC integers for every specific two-card total are given in Stanford Wong’s Professional Blackjack (1981).
