BlackJack @ PartyPoker

[Boobie Lover]

You should just play blackjack full time now that you have found the secret to beating the game.

[eejit101]

I didnt say i can beat the game, i said i am not losing to the game. Not losing and beating the game are 2 different things. My system works for me, it isnt infallible, it doesnt work all the time, and i play quite a bit. Nothing special comes from it, if i wini win, if i lose i lose. Simple really.

[MAYHEM45]

As long as you are happy playing a negative expectation game and have no problem inevitably losing all your money if you keep playing, cool.

[eejit101]

i am happy playing a =EV IMO game, and in the end not losing all my money yeah.

[Boobie Lover]

Even if you play the game perfectly (which your strategy is not), unless you count cards, it is a -EV game. You WILL lose money.

[MAYHEM45]

Man people like you are why casinos will never go out of business.

Nothing personal, please dont read into it like that, but I'm just sayin...

[eejit101]

not a problem, i understand your looking out for my bankroll. BUt i assure you, ive played BJ for over a year, and have figured out a good system which works for me. I also dont play large stakes. I also dont risk hardly nay of my bankroll, so if i win its all good, if i lose it doesnt matter much. I can win it back in 1 good hand of 2/4 NL

[PShabi]

My god, my head hurts.

I'm just going to "ditto" every post made to Ejit in this thread.

But Ejit,

"Not losing" implies "winning money" which is, by definition, "beating the game."

[Dodoubled]

I've played Party BlackJack, too. Not much, but just enough to get a feel for it. And enough to drop about 20 bucks.

Anyhow, some thoughts.
1.) It is possible to get +EV in blackjack, but there are a ton of factors that go into it. Playing perfect basic strategy is only the beginning. Deck size, the true count (the proportion of 10-cards and aces to the number of 2s through 6s, divided by the number of decks in the shoe) all factor into it. Even the best players (read, "counters") are only looking for an advantage of +1 percent or so -- and even that might be generous.
2.) That said, the biggest advantage an online blackjack game has over you is the inability for you to count anything whatsoever because we don't know the randomness with which the cards are shuffled. Does the computer use a single deck, a four-deck shoe, a six-deck shoe or an eight-deck shoe? Or, does the computer shuffle every single time, nullifying any semblance of a true count? My bet is on the latter.
Remember, this isn't like poker, where a single deck is shuffled before each hand. A player's advantage in blackjack banks on what has been played, and more importantly, what hasn't.