As an avid blackjack player the best advice I can give outside of basic strategy(someone posted the card above) is to press while hot. You aren't going to win good/big $ just trying to grind it out. Unless you have the most amazing discipline ever. For every roller coaster score story I could tell you, I got 10x brutal stories to go with it. At least 50% of them are my own undoing.
I once pushed a 1,400 hand when I doubled vs the dealers 5 and made 21. Dealer pulled a 5-card 21 on the last fucking card of the shoe. We researched the probability and it was a 0.02% chance of happening. And this is why you press and run while ya can.
Good post. It's a long-term loser but when the cards are falling you need to press hard. The sessions really come down to those few hands you split, then double, etc.