Articles by Joshua Hill
Joshua is a lifelong (can you play poker in diapers?) poker player who moved online in 2004. He created Beat The Fish in 2005 to help fellow frustrated online poker players choose the right poker site for their strengths and then how to win consistently once they got there. He is a published author, a certified news writer, and has played millions of hands of online poker.
Blackjack Table Selection
Insurance in Blackjack
Surrender in Blackjack
When to surrender in blackjack: the only play with a fixed price. Give up the hand and half your bet comes back, so the rule…
Blackjack Basic Strategy Chart
The full basic strategy chart — hard totals, soft totals and pairs — solved live for the rules you set, with the eighteen lines that…
Pair Splitting in Blackjack
When to split a pair in blackjack, solved: what the option is worth, why aces and eights carry nearly two thirds of it, why tens…
Doubling Down in Blackjack
Doubling down is the only move that changes how much money is on the hand: one extra card, one extra bet, and no right to…
Blackjack Basic Strategy Trainer
Get dealt a hand, pick the play, and find out straight away whether it was right and what the other choice would have cost. Every…
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Basic strategy is the correct play for every hand against every dealer upcard — solved, not remembered. It is the difference between a game that…
Soft vs Hard Hands in Blackjack
An ace counts as eleven until that would bust you, then becomes a one. A hand where it is still an eleven is soft, and…
Blackjack Strategy
Eleven guides, in the order they build on each other — from what makes a hand soft, through the decisions that actually cost money, to…
Blackjack Rules
How blackjack works, from card values to the exact script the dealer has to follow — with the dealer's outcomes for every upcard solved rather…