(Or they are unaware someone is counting cards, so they get bent out of shape when someone tries to feign an amateur move by splitting tens in a spectacularly favorable situation.) Being a jerk is bad enough, but being a jerk and being wrong is almost take-'im-out-to-the-desert stuff. The real fun comes when a self-appointed expert constantly comments about other people's play and tells them what to do based on basic but they aren't aware that different house rules (dbl any 2 cards, late surrender, shoe vs single deck, dealer staying on soft 17, etc) can change the rules.

The odds are still very substantially against you, and if it come up once in a session, it is not predictive. But to the casual player who stays for half an hour and will leave, it makes no practical difference to hold on 16 against a face card compared to taking a card, for example. If you play basic for thousands of hands, yes, playing perfectly will make a difference (and that is why it is so exhausting to try to make it work at a substantial profit). The chart doesn't show the odds underlying the basic rules. One thing I get a kick out of is when a 'perfect player' gets bent out of shape at someone making one of those choices where basic strategy says to do something, but the differential is only a couple thousandths of a % between hitting or staying. One reason for this is we are likely to just get annoyed in general when we see somebody doing things 'wrong.' So when it affects us, we get annoyed even more, and it sticks in the memory more strongly.

It just seems to be whenever I get up to a decent size bet is when a player will deviate from basic strategy and seem to mess up that particular hand and I lose You are absolutely correct that in the grand scheme of things it all balances out.

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