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OK. What's a bad hand in black jack to start with? Well, in the previous segment we talked
about how there are more cards that equal ten on their face than anything else in the
deck. Tens equal ten, jacks equal ten, queens and kings all equal ten. This is important
because we want cards that if I have; if you have to hit you have the potential to get
a high hand and not bust. So, if I have a starting hand of a five and a six that equals
eleven. I'm excited, because statistically I'm more likely to get something that equals
ten than anything else. I'm in good shape to get twenty-one. OK. Now, bad hands would
be hands that don't work well with tens. That would be fourteen. Like this queen and this
four. Fifteen like this eight and this seven. Sixteen like this jack and this six. These
are hands that leave you in the lurch. Again, if I have hands that if I take one hit I can't
bust, but I know if I hit them more than likely; more than anything else I'm likely to get
a ten then I'm not real excited about this five, but what can you do? These are tough
hands, but sometimes you'll stand, sometimes you'll hit. You'll always hit this, but, you
know, these are hands you're going to get a lot of. They can make you pull your hair
out when you play black jack.