More recently, additional information on C-D basic strategy can be found in the book Blackjack Attack: Playing the Pros’ Way by Don Schlesinger The book Blackjack Bluebook II by Fred Renzey and Don Schlesinger’s commercially available Ultimate Blackjack Strategy Cards.ĭeveloping a strategy chart or table with all of the possible composition-dependent strategies would be pages long and virtually impossible for an average player to learn. There is nothing “wrong” with this basic strategy however, you can gain extra precision (i.e., slightly lower house edge) if you consider the composition of the cards in your hand, known as Composition-Dependent or C-D basic strategy.Īctually, C-D basic strategy has been around for a long time, having first been proposed in 1979 in the classic book The Theory of Blackjack by the late blackjack mathematician Peter A. The latter is also more commonly referred to as the traditional basic playing strategy. The basic strategy presented in Chapter 3 considered just the total of all the cards in your hand, without any consideration of the individual cards that comprise the total, known as Total-Dependent or T-D basic strategy.
