Blackjack Insider Newsletter, Sept. 2003, #44

Here’s a little addition to your blackjack tournament toolbox that can give you an extra edge in many final hand situations. You may have heard experienced tournament players talking about a tournament situation where a player had a "free hit". Today you'll see what is meant by that phrase, and how you can learn to recognize the situations where it applies.

Tournament experts sometimes seems to have a language all their own, using phrases such as "taking the high", "taking the low", "playing for the swing", or "free hit". Since all of these phrases describe circumstances important to today’s topic, let’s look at these one by one.

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