> In reality casino card games are 99.9% chance Small nitpick: I'd argue that Blackjack is closer to 80% skill, and 20% chance, just based on the fact that if

> In reality casino card games are 99.9% chance Small nitpick: I'd argue that Blackjack is closer to 80% skill, and 20% chance, just based on the fact that if you don't play every Blackjack hand with the same statistically "correct" strategy [1], you will end up bleeding money well in excess of the house advantage. I'd venture a guess that casinos make 80%+ of their profits from players that aren't playing with perfect Blackjack strategy (for example, not double down on an 11, or not splitting aces, or not remembering whether to hit or stand a 16, etc). When players aren't playing with perfect Blackjack strategy, the house edge isn't all that relevant. The amount of money a player loses can be attributed to the "mistakes" an average player will make (that can be avoided by memorizing perfect blackjack strategy), rather than being attributed as much to chance. Someone playing perfect blackjack strategy will on average break pretty close to even, since the house edge for Blackjack is incredibly small. > It feels like if you played enough you'd get better From the perspective of a player learning perfect blackjack strategy, the truth is you do get better with practice :) [1] Playing a perfect game of Blackjack requires memorizing charts like this: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/816DFf5i0EL.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/816DFf5i0EL...