Blackjack - average value per hand

[YamatoTwinkie]

@Sam_Stone

If you sit there and cycle your money through by playing 500 hands, then you get tired of playing and leave, you’d walk away with $975.25, and the hold for the house turns out to be about 2.5%. But if you’re totally addicted and you sit there without bathing or sleeping until you’re busted, the casino’s hold is 100%.

Got it?

I get it now. What was throwing me for a loop is figuring out the difference between the hold of 1 person playing 1000 hands (house hold of 5% using your math) and 1000 people playing 1 hand (house hold of 0.5%)

…Then I realized that at $10 a bet, the buy-in for the 1000 people is $10,000, as opposed to the single guy that only bought $1000 of chips before starting :smack: