Thursday, March 15, 2018

Nope You're Not Crazy

So have you been playing and noticed that the dealer gets an "inordinate" number of 20s? Well you're not imagining things. From CV Data:

What you're seeing here is the frequency that the dealer gets a 20 when they have a 10 card up. The simulation is 400 million rounds. Notice that 40 million times? That's almost 3 times the number of 19s, 18s or 17s. Matter of fact it is more than 17-19 combined. Dealer 20s are by far the most frequent single hand the the dealer gets. That face up 10 is deadly indeed.

In terms of parent, the dealer gets a 20 10% of the time that a 10 is showing, that's 3x more than any other hand over 16.