black jack is a game that reminds me of a roller coaster. It’s a game that starts out slowly, but gradually gets faster. As you build up your bank roll, you feel like you are getting up to the top of the coaster and then when you aren’t expecting it, the bottom falls out.
Blackjack is so very similar to a roller coaster the similarities are ghastly. As with the popular amusement park experience, your blackjack game will peak and things will seemingly be going well for a while before it bottoms out one more time. You have to be a blackjack player who’s able to adjust well to the ups … downs of the game especially given that the game of blackjack is packed full with them.
If you like the mini coaster, a coaster that does not go too high or fast, then bet small. If you find the only way that you can enjoy the coaster ride is with a bigger bet, then jump on for the coaster ride of your life on the monster coaster. The high-roller will love the view from the monster rollercoaster because he or she is not mentally processing the drop as they rush hastily to the top of the game.
A win goal and a loss limit works well in blackjack, but very few players adhere to it. In blackjack, if you "get on the rollercoaster" as it’s going up, that’s terrific, but when the cards "go south" and the coaster begins to toss and turn, you had better bail out in a hurry.
If you don’t, you will not always remember how much you enjoyed the good life while your cash was "up". The only thing you will remember is a lot of uncertainties, a crazy fun ride … your head in the sky. As you are recounting "what ifs", you won’t easily recount how "high up" you went but you will have memories of that mortifying drop as clear as day.