An Arrogant or Inferior Blackjack Mindset

Blackjack strategies and techniques are good but all must be considered from what mindset or attitude they come from.

A mindset is like a construction foundation. Construction materials may be of good quality, but they are all nothing when the foundation they are built on is inferior. A blackjack mindset of arrogance or inferiority can make or break a blackjack overall strategy. Thus, it is important to check what attitude we have before taking a seat for a blackjack session.

Let's take a hit or raised bet for example. What prompted the move? The number one motive is winning, of course, but on what grounds? Most people would hit or raise based on how the last blackjack game went. Successive wins would often trigger overconfident hits or raises, and successive losses would often trigger over cautious hand plays. When strategies get this shallow, we're bound to develop a parochial mindset in blackjack.

Negative mindsets often come in two forms: arrogant and inferior. Bear in mind that a good play at one table doesn't necessarily mean the same at another. When we switch tables from lower to higher limit tables, we also switch opponents or dealers. Most likely, lower limits will have lenient dealers who'd spark the mood of novice players to lure them to build up confidence and try higher stakes tables. That building up of confidence spurred by dealers is often dangerous. At best, it is imaginary. When we are incited purely by such motivation, it is likely that we would have an arrogant blackjack mindset.

An inferior mindset has more or less the same workings. Successive losses tend to work up a losing mentality in us so that pretty soon it affects everything we do at the table. Specifically, it wrecks our betting spirit. Few people would raise bets after several losses in a row. The idea often is that a sequence of wins or losses will stay on and stop somewhere, sometime.

The truth is, wins and losses don't and cannot "follow" some pattern or sequence. They have no mind of their own. They happen due to how dealt cards end up, battle of wits and skills, luck, and a mindset. The best thing to remember as a blackjack mindset is to play in the present. Don't judge based on past plays.

So beware of a negative blackjack mindset. Strategies will all go to waste when everything is built on wreckage.