♠ Blackjack Trainer

Graduation: the full chart

Twenty hands mixed across hard totals, soft totals, and pairs, eighteen correct to pass. 90% is where this Checkpoint stops grading you, not where basic strategy is good enough. The target is 100%. At a real table there is no partial credit, and each wrong cell is a leak you pay every time it comes up. If you fail at 16 or 17, check which hands you missed (the per-category stats on the training table show you), re-run that Lesson's Checkpoint, then retry this one.

Pass it and you play better blackjack than most people who have ever sat at a table. You have cut the house edge to its floor of roughly half a percent, and every future hand has a correct answer you can produce without thinking. Keep it sharp with regular sessions on the training table. Recall fades without practice, and every cell you forget costs money.

The card counting page covers what lies beyond the chart, and the Card Counting Course picks up where this one stops. Know what it demands. Counting's entire edge is about 1%, roughly what imperfect basic strategy gives away, so for a counter 100% basic strategy is the minimum, not a bonus. A counter who misses cells has no edge and is losing money with extra effort. Train past this graduation until the training table shows sustained 100%, then move on. Or stop here and be the best player at your table for free.

Hand2345678910A
5HHHHHHHHHH
6HHHHHHHHHH
7HHHHHHHHHH
8HHHHHHHHHH
9HDDDDHHHHH
10DDDDDDDDHH
11DDDDDDDDDD
12HHSSSHHHHH
13SSSSSHHHHH
14SSSSSHHHHH
15SSSSSHHHRR
16SSSSSHHRRR
17SSSSSSSSSR
Hand2345678910A
A,2HHHDDHHHHH
A,3HHHDDHHHHH
A,4HHDDDHHHHH
A,5HHDDDHHHHH
A,6HDDDDHHHHH
A,7DsDsDsDsDsSSHHH
A,8SSSSDsSSSSS
A,9SSSSSSSSSS
Pair2345678910A
2,2PPPPPPHHHH
3,3PPPPPPHHHH
4,4HHHPPHHHHH
5,5DDDDDDDDHH
6,6PPPPPHHHHH
7,7PPPPPPHHHH
8,8PPPPPPPPPR
9,9PPPPPSPPSS
10,10SSSSSSSSSS
A,APPPPPPPPPP
HHitSStandDDouble (else hit)DsDouble (else stand)PSplitRSurrender
The full chart, assembled from the regions you have trained. Any block that looks unfamiliar is the Lesson to re-run.

Checkpoint: 20 mixed hands, 18 correct to pass.

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