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Oh, how did I miss this one?
The times I've been in Nevada, all I did was play blackjack, so I have some experience here.
The blackjack game built into TCY is limited, but the advice module is culled from a lot of statistical work, and it plays a good game.
If you play blackjack well, which means you memorize the basic charts, you can win 49% of the hands. If you count cards well, you can increase those odds to slightly over 50%. This means blackjack is the only game in Vegas where a good player can win money with average luck.
But that's not where the good players win their money. The Martingale System is for fools. You don't win money quickly playing blackjack. You win by playing smart and playing for a long time. At some point, you will lose eight hands in a row. There's nothing you can do about that. And the Martingale System guarantees that when that happens you lose your shirt - and more. Play the Martingale System long enough, and everybody loses. That, by definition, is a bad system.
The best blackjack players count cards and play conservatively most of the time. The counting improves game play slightly. But where it works is that counting should also determine how much you bet. And when the deck is rich in high cards - which work in the player's favor because the player can stop on 12-16 and the dealer can not, you bet higher. When the deck is particularly rich in high cards, a smart player is winning 55-60% of their hands, getting more 2-card 21s - and betting more on each hand.
Blackjack is the only game where someone behaving himself can get himself thrown out of a casino. The best card counters are known to every casino and are met by pit bosses before they can even sit down. But the pit bosses don't concern themselves with college kids playing at the $5 tables. I tried to get myself thrown out for card-counting, but when you're only up $100 on the $5 table, they leave you alone.
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