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HOME Blackjack Guide Blackjack Casino Promotions Promotions and coupons allow players to gain an advantage over casinos, which is usually card counters’ territory. Some of the promotions we will discuss are so good that they can turn a disadvantageous game usually avoided into one actually preferred by players. By clicking ’Send’ you are agreeing for us to contact you using the above Personal Data you have provided. This information will not be used for marketing purposes, we will only contact you with regards to your inquiry.
UK. Travel retail staffing and experiential specialist Blackjack Promotions has launched a ‘Be Ready’ campaign to educate and support its employees on returning to work safely in airports in the time of COVID-19.
Blackjack wants its brand ambassadors to feel confident, safe and protected. The campaign, it said, has “one important goal”: That when the time is right, Blackjack will be ready for a safe return to work and “ensure that their people have the right tools and information to be protected in the airport”.
“The Be Ready campaign is about taking immediate steps to consider what measures Blackjack need to take to be ready for a safe return to work and will form a critical step in the journey to remobilising the airport community”
Blackjack Promotions’ Be Ready campaign aims to protect its frontline brand ambassadors
“The Be Ready campaign is about taking immediate steps to consider what measures Blackjack need to take to be ready for a safe return to work and will form a critical step in the journey to remobilising the airport community,” the company added.
Be Ready training videos highlight the latest practical information and advice on the impacts of COVID-19. The campaign underlines safe working practices and the correct Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and uses Blackjack’s online iCademy to manage interactive training sessions.
As the travel retail industry encounters its “toughest period in a generation”, Blackjack emphasised its “safety first approach”.
Blackjack says its employees will be ready to return to a safe working environment when the time is right
Blackjack Promotions Managing Director Jason Miles commented: “On any given day, we strive to deliver exciting and immersive brand experiences in airports across the world. We do this by recruiting talented and charismatic people and we cannot wait to see them back in store, working with incredible brands.
“The reality right now, however, is that we need to focus on giving our teams the confidence and support so that when the time is right, they can return to work safely.”
Miles said Blackjack would be following guidance from Public Health England about PPE, adding that the company has procured non-surgical face masks, should they be recommended, or for when social distancing measures are not possible.
He pointed out that Blackjack has worked with its parent company ABM to source a type of mask that is not required or used by the healthcare sector, so the supply will not impact the NHS supply chain. Miles said the masks have been verified as effective against COVID-19.Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.Wiz, You are the man! You have far and away the best gambling site on the ’net. Being an actuary myself (ACAS), I love to see someone putting their math skills to good use.
My question — When late surrender is allowed, do you still want to split eights with a ten showing? I’m guessing yes, but one of the hardest plays in BJ is splitting eights vs a ten.
As a side note, I just spent three days in Vegas, if you haven’t done so already, you must try the Las Vegas Club and the World’s Most Liberal blackjack Rules. Doubling is allowed on 3 or 4 cards, 6 cards <= 21 is an automatic winner, and late surrender. At six decks, I figured the house advantage to be 0.14%. Thanks for all of your hard work!!
Thanks for the kind words, Jim. Yes, you still want to split eights, even if late surrender is offered. Even if you can’t double after a split you should still decline to surrender. Based on a two-deck game, where you can not double after splitting, the expected value of splitting 8,s against a 10 is -0.480673, better than the -0.5 by surrendering.
Contrary to their claim of having the ’World’s Most Liberal Blackjack Rules’ there are better single-deck games right across the street at the Horseshoe or the Golden Gate. It is the six decks at the Las Vegas Club which work against the player. Don’t feel badly about falling for their marquee, I fell for it myself in my younger days before I knew the effects of rule variations.
Update: After this question, the Las Vegas Club changed their rules to pay 6 to 5 on a blackjack in their so-called ’World’s Most Liberal Blackjack Rules.’ The 6 to 5 does not even make it a legitimate blackjack game. You are much better off at any ordinary 3-2 game, which are easy to find elsewhere.Here in Natchez we have a river boat casino that allows the Royal Match (version 1) with blackjack, using six decks. They also have an added bonus that if the player and dealer both get a royal match on the same hand, then the player is paid an additional $1,000. How does this affect the house edge?
This $1000 bonus lowers the house edge from 6.67% to 6.00%, assuming a $1 bet.First off, great web site! I love it! In Reno I saw a game with the following rules: six decks, dealer hits soft 17, double after a split, re-split anything except aces, and the player could double on any number of cards. For example, the player could draw to a four-card total of 11 and then double. What is the house edge on this game?
You didn’t state the surrender rule, so I’ll assume it isn’t allowed. According to my blackjack house edge calculator, and before considering the double any number of cards rule, the house edge is 0.64%. According to my list of rule variations, being allowed to double on any number of cards (a rule commonly found in Panama) is worth 0.23%. So, the house edge over the overall game is 0.64% - 0.23% = 0.41%.Can blackjack be beaten under the following casino conditions:
* The game is dealt face up from an 8 deck shoe, with the cut card appearing after 5 decks have been dealt (3 decks behind the cut).
* Dealer stands on soft 17.
* No surrender.
* Can double down on any 2 card total without an ace.
* Can split aces once only, one card on each.
* Can split any other pair to a maximum of 3 hands.
* Can double after split.
* Dealer takes original bets only on blackjack.
* Can take even money on blackjack when dealer’s upcard is an ace.
* Table max is 50 times table min.
*Card counting is permitted if the counter plays the first hand of the shoe, and plays every hand. Counter can play any number of boxes, and any bet amount. Counter can stop at any time, but cannot rejoin a shoe after missing a hand, or join a shoe that is partway through.
I haven’t done any simulations, but my educated option is a definite yes, this game can be beaten. The strategy to use in this game would be to bet the minimum when the odds are against you and the maximum when they are in your favor. Normally a sudden 50 times increase in bet size would set off a huge red flag but it seems the counter could do this with impunity in your game. When Atlantic City first opened the casinos could not ask card counters to leave and entire tables were filled with people jumping suddenly from a $5 bet to $300, or whatever the minimums and maximums were. After taking a huge beating, the Atlantic City casinos begged the gaming authorities for a change in the rules, which they got. Not only could this be beaten, but I think it would be a card counters dream.Do you have basic strategy for the following rules? Dealer takes 17-17, 18-18 and 19-19 ties, doubling after split is allowed, 3 resplits, no-peek, player can double 7-11 totals (soft and hard), dealer stands on soft 17, six decks.
Stanford Wong’s Blackjack Count Analyzer is perfect for questions like this. Just plug in the rules and it produces an immediately basic strategy and is ready to run a simulation. Following is his basis strategy under these rules. I did a 31-million hand simulation using Blackjack Count Analyzer, which shows a house edge of 4.13%, under these rules. When I was in Finland they had single zero roulette, which has a much lower house edge than this game. Why the blackjack rules are so stingy in Finland I would like to know.
Jackpot capital new player bonus.I was visiting an Indian casino the other day where the blackjack minimum bet was $2, but for each bet, they asked for an additional 25 cents (they did this by giving you 4 special 25 cent chips for each dollar chip you had) so essentially, you bet $2.25 to win back $2. While I was still able to walk away with a bit of a profit, I was wondering if there was a quick and easy way to calculate just how much of a house edge this ’commission’ gave them? I know that compared to dealer hitting on soft 17, it’s gotta be a killer.
The total house edge is [fee + (house edge)*(bet)]/[fee + bet]. Let’s say the house edge is 0.8%. Then the house edge including the fee would be [$0.25 + $2.00*0.008][$0.25 + $2.00] = 11.82%.
However, a quick and easy estimate is to simply divide the fee by the bet as the increase in house edge due to the fee.Your web site is awesome! I enjoy your advice and am amazed at the simple way you explain things about gaming in a way I can understand. My question is this -- while playing a benefit blackjack game where they have from what I could tell, all the ’Vegas’ rules, I found out they were paying two to one for a blackjack. This seems like a big benefit to the player; just how big is it? (this is no joke or prank, I actually played at the table where they were doing this!)
Thanks for the compliment. If I had been at this game I would have played it hard. Assuming six-decks and otherwise Vegas rules, the player edge would have been 1.94%. The 2 to 1 on blackjack adds 2.37% to the player’s expected return in a six-deck game.The Flamingo is offering a single deck blackjack game with regular downtown rules (hs17). The only difference is that they altered the natural payoff to 6 to 5 instead on the normal 3 to 2. My questions are; How does that affect the starting advantage on this game? What would it be? How would it affect the insurance wager? Specifically what would Insurance have to pay in order for the player to get ’even money’ and be square to the 6 to 5 payoff?
Using my good ol’ blackjack house edge calculator normal downtown rules result in a house edge of 0.1896%. In single deck the probability of a player blackjack and no dealer blackjack is 2*(16/52)*(4/51)*(1-2*(15/50)*(3/49))= 0.046492. Reducing the BJ win from 1.5 to 1.2 results in increasing the house edge by 0.046492*(1.5-1.2)= 1.3948%. So the house edge of this game would be 1.3948%+0.1896%=1.5844% (ouch!). For insurance to result in even money, it would have to pay 5-1 but the player could only bet 20% of the original bet on it.How is the house advantage affected by ’free Ace’ coupons (promotional tools) used with a continuous shuffler?
I have been asked this enough time to add a section about it. The short answer is that the coupon is worth just over half of its face value. Visit my blackjack appendix 14 for all the details. I have a coupon from LVA #115 Free Blackjack Insurance up to $25.00 at Slots of Fun. What’s its value?
I have that coupon too, and am running out of time to use it. Let’s assume a single deck game. The probability the dealer has blackjack with an ace showing is 16/51 = 31.37%. So if you bet $50 the value of this coupon is (16/51)*$50 = $14.71. However I estimate you will lose $1.23 due to the house edge waiting for the opportunity to use it. So the coupon itself is worth $14.71 - $1.23 = $13.48.The Hollywood casino in Tunica started offering a FREE progressive side bet on two $5 tables. The rules are six decks and dealer hits a soft 17, all other rules are standard. They swear there are no rule changes to the game (Dealer hits, DAS, 4 splits, 6 decks). Suited sevens of diamonds gets the progressive, which starts at $1,000. All other triple sevens pay $50. So how high would the progressive need to be to get to breakeven?
The probability of three seven of diamonds is combin(6,3)/combin(312,3) = 0.00000398937. The probability of three unsuited sevens is (combin(24,3)-combin(6,3))/combin(312,3) = 0.000399735. According to my blackjack calculator the house edge is 0.6233%. The expected loss on a $5 bet would be 3.12 cents. Just the value of the $50 for three unsuited sevens is $50*0.000399735=2.00 cents. To make up the other 1.12 cents the meter would need to reach $2802.What changes should one make to blackjack basic strategy when playing just a single hand when the objective is to maximize the chance of winning that hand (for example when using a match play coupon)?
It depends if the player is allowed to double and split the match play portion of the bet. Usually the player is not allowed to, which works against the player. The following chart shows how to adjust your double and splitting strategy, assuming the player may not double the match play and if the player splits the match play rides on the first hand played, based on infinite decks and the dealer standing on soft 17. The hit/stand strategy is the same. Great site! I would call it the best among all the gambling sites I have seen on the web. A question about surrender in blackjack. Some casinos (for example Foxwoods) give match play coupons for blackjack. One good thing about the coupon is that when you surrender, you only lose half of your own money, and are allowed to keep the whole coupon. (But you lose your coupon no matter you win or lose.) I guess you want to surrender more in this situation, but was wondering what is the correct strategy? Thanks!
Thanks. You should be doing a lot of surrendering if you can keep the match play. My blackjack appendix 9 is good for questions such as this. A match play is worth just about half of face value. So if the expected value of the hand is less than -1/3 you should surrender. Assuming the dealer hits a soft 17 here are those times.
*Player 6 vs. 10-A
*Player 12 vs. 9-A
*Player 13 vs. 8-A
*Player 14 vs. 8-A
*Player 15 vs. 7-A
*Player 16 vs. 7-A
*Player 17 vs. 8-A
*Player 8,8 vs. 9-A
The strategy is the same if the dealer stands on a soft 17, except the player will not surrender 6 against an ace. A local casino had a promotion on their over/under 13 side bet in blackjack. If your first two cards are suited you receive a $5 ’action chip.’ If your first two cards and the dealer’s up card are suited you receive a $10 action chip. The action chips are good for one bet only, the player keeps any winnings but always loses the action chips. The minimum bet is $10. Six decks of cards are used. What is the house edge on the over/under 13 bet?
Before considering the bonuses, the house edge is lower on the over bet at 6.55%, as I show in my blackjack appendix 8. The probability of three suited cards is 4×combin(78,3)/combin(312,3) = 4×76076/5013320 = 0.060699. The probability the player’s two cards are suited, but the dealer’s card is not, is (4×combin(78,2)×234)/(combin(312,2)×310) = 2810808/15039960 = 0.186889. Let’s assume the action chips are worth 49.5% of face value. Then the bonuses are worth 0.495×(0.060699×$10 + 0.186889×$5) = $0.76301. The expected loss on the over bet is $10×0.0655 = $0.655. So each $10 over 13 bet is worth $0.76301 - $0.655 = 10.8 cents. Free slots play the best free slots. The overall player advantage is 1.08% on a $10 over 13 bet.I’d like your advice on a blackjack coupon. As I understand the rules, the coupon doubles any win, up to $25, and can be presented any time. If I bet $16.50, and wait for a blackjack to use it, the coupon will double the blackjack win of $24.75. Or should I bet $25, and use it on the first win of any kind? What is the expected loss both ways? Please assume a house edge of 0.64%.
First let’s calculate the expected loss if you bet $16.50, and wait until a winning blackjack to use the coupon. The probability of a player blackjack is the number of aces × number of tens / combinations of ways to choose two cards out of the 312 in the shoe. That comes to 24×96/combin(312,2) = 0.0474895. If both of you have a blackjack, the coupon does you no good. Assuming the player has a blackjack, the probability of a dealer blackjack is 23 × 95 / combin(310,2) = 0.045621. So, the probability of the player having a winning blackjack is 0.0474895 * (1-0.045621) = 0.045323, or once in 22.06 hands. So, your way of playing 22.06 hands at $16.50 each would have an expected loss of 22.06 × $16.50 × .0064=$2.33.
Next, let’s calculate the expected loss if you bet $25, and wait until the first win to use the coupon. The probability of any win is 42.42%, as found in my blackjack appendix 4. This is not exactly the applicable statistic for this situation, due to complications in splitting, but close enough. So, the expected number of hands to play to have a winning hand is 1/0.4242 = 2.36. The expected loss of betting 2.36 hands of $25 each is 2.36 × $25 × .0064=$0.38, which has a cost 84% less than waiting for a blackjack.There is a “Bad — It’s the New Good” promotion running in the high-limit room at the Barona casino. If the dealer in blackjack gets a 7-card 21, then all players actively wagering at the table will get $500. Also, if the dealer gets an 8-card 21, then all players at the table will split a progressive jackpot, which starts at $25,000, plus players at the other high-limit tables will each get $500. What is the probability of these events, and what is the value per hand to the player?
The following table shows the probability of a dealer 21-point hand according to the number of cards and number of decks. 60 free spins coin master free.Probability of Dealer 21-Point HandCards1 Deck2 Decks6 Decks20.04826550.04779690.047489530.05375570.05302460.052565640.01840490.01849450.018538850.003105760.003260010.0033588160.0002917170.0003445590.00038038770.00001600930.00002348970.00002925180.0000004564110.0000009973250.0000015235690.000000004669910.00000002390120.0000000526866100.00000000000642140.0000000002622290.000000001151521100.00000000000091790.000000000014882712000.000000000000100313000.0000000000000003
The next table shows the value in cents of the three prizes. The row for the 7-card prize is the value per hand of the $500 bonus for a dealer 7-card 21. The row for the 8-card prize is the value per hand of a $25,000 prize for a dealer 8-card 21. That should be multiplied by the ratio of the current jackpot to $25,000, for the value at any given moment. The row for the envy prize is the value per hand dealt at all other tables in the room of the $500 prizes for the jackpot hitting at another table. Value of Prizes per Hand DealtPrize1 Deck2 Decks6 Decks7-card $500 win0.80¢1.17¢1.46¢8-car
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UK. Travel retail staffing and experiential specialist Blackjack Promotions has launched a ‘Be Ready’ campaign to educate and support its employees on returning to work safely in airports in the time of COVID-19.
Blackjack wants its brand ambassadors to feel confident, safe and protected. The campaign, it said, has “one important goal”: That when the time is right, Blackjack will be ready for a safe return to work and “ensure that their people have the right tools and information to be protected in the airport”.
“The Be Ready campaign is about taking immediate steps to consider what measures Blackjack need to take to be ready for a safe return to work and will form a critical step in the journey to remobilising the airport community”
Blackjack Promotions’ Be Ready campaign aims to protect its frontline brand ambassadors
“The Be Ready campaign is about taking immediate steps to consider what measures Blackjack need to take to be ready for a safe return to work and will form a critical step in the journey to remobilising the airport community,” the company added.
Be Ready training videos highlight the latest practical information and advice on the impacts of COVID-19. The campaign underlines safe working practices and the correct Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and uses Blackjack’s online iCademy to manage interactive training sessions.
As the travel retail industry encounters its “toughest period in a generation”, Blackjack emphasised its “safety first approach”.
Blackjack says its employees will be ready to return to a safe working environment when the time is right
Blackjack Promotions Managing Director Jason Miles commented: “On any given day, we strive to deliver exciting and immersive brand experiences in airports across the world. We do this by recruiting talented and charismatic people and we cannot wait to see them back in store, working with incredible brands.
“The reality right now, however, is that we need to focus on giving our teams the confidence and support so that when the time is right, they can return to work safely.”
Miles said Blackjack would be following guidance from Public Health England about PPE, adding that the company has procured non-surgical face masks, should they be recommended, or for when social distancing measures are not possible.
He pointed out that Blackjack has worked with its parent company ABM to source a type of mask that is not required or used by the healthcare sector, so the supply will not impact the NHS supply chain. Miles said the masks have been verified as effective against COVID-19.Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.Wiz, You are the man! You have far and away the best gambling site on the ’net. Being an actuary myself (ACAS), I love to see someone putting their math skills to good use.
My question — When late surrender is allowed, do you still want to split eights with a ten showing? I’m guessing yes, but one of the hardest plays in BJ is splitting eights vs a ten.
As a side note, I just spent three days in Vegas, if you haven’t done so already, you must try the Las Vegas Club and the World’s Most Liberal blackjack Rules. Doubling is allowed on 3 or 4 cards, 6 cards <= 21 is an automatic winner, and late surrender. At six decks, I figured the house advantage to be 0.14%. Thanks for all of your hard work!!
Thanks for the kind words, Jim. Yes, you still want to split eights, even if late surrender is offered. Even if you can’t double after a split you should still decline to surrender. Based on a two-deck game, where you can not double after splitting, the expected value of splitting 8,s against a 10 is -0.480673, better than the -0.5 by surrendering.
Contrary to their claim of having the ’World’s Most Liberal Blackjack Rules’ there are better single-deck games right across the street at the Horseshoe or the Golden Gate. It is the six decks at the Las Vegas Club which work against the player. Don’t feel badly about falling for their marquee, I fell for it myself in my younger days before I knew the effects of rule variations.
Update: After this question, the Las Vegas Club changed their rules to pay 6 to 5 on a blackjack in their so-called ’World’s Most Liberal Blackjack Rules.’ The 6 to 5 does not even make it a legitimate blackjack game. You are much better off at any ordinary 3-2 game, which are easy to find elsewhere.Here in Natchez we have a river boat casino that allows the Royal Match (version 1) with blackjack, using six decks. They also have an added bonus that if the player and dealer both get a royal match on the same hand, then the player is paid an additional $1,000. How does this affect the house edge?
This $1000 bonus lowers the house edge from 6.67% to 6.00%, assuming a $1 bet.First off, great web site! I love it! In Reno I saw a game with the following rules: six decks, dealer hits soft 17, double after a split, re-split anything except aces, and the player could double on any number of cards. For example, the player could draw to a four-card total of 11 and then double. What is the house edge on this game?
You didn’t state the surrender rule, so I’ll assume it isn’t allowed. According to my blackjack house edge calculator, and before considering the double any number of cards rule, the house edge is 0.64%. According to my list of rule variations, being allowed to double on any number of cards (a rule commonly found in Panama) is worth 0.23%. So, the house edge over the overall game is 0.64% - 0.23% = 0.41%.Can blackjack be beaten under the following casino conditions:
* The game is dealt face up from an 8 deck shoe, with the cut card appearing after 5 decks have been dealt (3 decks behind the cut).
* Dealer stands on soft 17.
* No surrender.
* Can double down on any 2 card total without an ace.
* Can split aces once only, one card on each.
* Can split any other pair to a maximum of 3 hands.
* Can double after split.
* Dealer takes original bets only on blackjack.
* Can take even money on blackjack when dealer’s upcard is an ace.
* Table max is 50 times table min.
*Card counting is permitted if the counter plays the first hand of the shoe, and plays every hand. Counter can play any number of boxes, and any bet amount. Counter can stop at any time, but cannot rejoin a shoe after missing a hand, or join a shoe that is partway through.
I haven’t done any simulations, but my educated option is a definite yes, this game can be beaten. The strategy to use in this game would be to bet the minimum when the odds are against you and the maximum when they are in your favor. Normally a sudden 50 times increase in bet size would set off a huge red flag but it seems the counter could do this with impunity in your game. When Atlantic City first opened the casinos could not ask card counters to leave and entire tables were filled with people jumping suddenly from a $5 bet to $300, or whatever the minimums and maximums were. After taking a huge beating, the Atlantic City casinos begged the gaming authorities for a change in the rules, which they got. Not only could this be beaten, but I think it would be a card counters dream.Do you have basic strategy for the following rules? Dealer takes 17-17, 18-18 and 19-19 ties, doubling after split is allowed, 3 resplits, no-peek, player can double 7-11 totals (soft and hard), dealer stands on soft 17, six decks.
Stanford Wong’s Blackjack Count Analyzer is perfect for questions like this. Just plug in the rules and it produces an immediately basic strategy and is ready to run a simulation. Following is his basis strategy under these rules. I did a 31-million hand simulation using Blackjack Count Analyzer, which shows a house edge of 4.13%, under these rules. When I was in Finland they had single zero roulette, which has a much lower house edge than this game. Why the blackjack rules are so stingy in Finland I would like to know.
Jackpot capital new player bonus.I was visiting an Indian casino the other day where the blackjack minimum bet was $2, but for each bet, they asked for an additional 25 cents (they did this by giving you 4 special 25 cent chips for each dollar chip you had) so essentially, you bet $2.25 to win back $2. While I was still able to walk away with a bit of a profit, I was wondering if there was a quick and easy way to calculate just how much of a house edge this ’commission’ gave them? I know that compared to dealer hitting on soft 17, it’s gotta be a killer.
The total house edge is [fee + (house edge)*(bet)]/[fee + bet]. Let’s say the house edge is 0.8%. Then the house edge including the fee would be [$0.25 + $2.00*0.008][$0.25 + $2.00] = 11.82%.
However, a quick and easy estimate is to simply divide the fee by the bet as the increase in house edge due to the fee.Your web site is awesome! I enjoy your advice and am amazed at the simple way you explain things about gaming in a way I can understand. My question is this -- while playing a benefit blackjack game where they have from what I could tell, all the ’Vegas’ rules, I found out they were paying two to one for a blackjack. This seems like a big benefit to the player; just how big is it? (this is no joke or prank, I actually played at the table where they were doing this!)
Thanks for the compliment. If I had been at this game I would have played it hard. Assuming six-decks and otherwise Vegas rules, the player edge would have been 1.94%. The 2 to 1 on blackjack adds 2.37% to the player’s expected return in a six-deck game.The Flamingo is offering a single deck blackjack game with regular downtown rules (hs17). The only difference is that they altered the natural payoff to 6 to 5 instead on the normal 3 to 2. My questions are; How does that affect the starting advantage on this game? What would it be? How would it affect the insurance wager? Specifically what would Insurance have to pay in order for the player to get ’even money’ and be square to the 6 to 5 payoff?
Using my good ol’ blackjack house edge calculator normal downtown rules result in a house edge of 0.1896%. In single deck the probability of a player blackjack and no dealer blackjack is 2*(16/52)*(4/51)*(1-2*(15/50)*(3/49))= 0.046492. Reducing the BJ win from 1.5 to 1.2 results in increasing the house edge by 0.046492*(1.5-1.2)= 1.3948%. So the house edge of this game would be 1.3948%+0.1896%=1.5844% (ouch!). For insurance to result in even money, it would have to pay 5-1 but the player could only bet 20% of the original bet on it.How is the house advantage affected by ’free Ace’ coupons (promotional tools) used with a continuous shuffler?
I have been asked this enough time to add a section about it. The short answer is that the coupon is worth just over half of its face value. Visit my blackjack appendix 14 for all the details. I have a coupon from LVA #115 Free Blackjack Insurance up to $25.00 at Slots of Fun. What’s its value?
I have that coupon too, and am running out of time to use it. Let’s assume a single deck game. The probability the dealer has blackjack with an ace showing is 16/51 = 31.37%. So if you bet $50 the value of this coupon is (16/51)*$50 = $14.71. However I estimate you will lose $1.23 due to the house edge waiting for the opportunity to use it. So the coupon itself is worth $14.71 - $1.23 = $13.48.The Hollywood casino in Tunica started offering a FREE progressive side bet on two $5 tables. The rules are six decks and dealer hits a soft 17, all other rules are standard. They swear there are no rule changes to the game (Dealer hits, DAS, 4 splits, 6 decks). Suited sevens of diamonds gets the progressive, which starts at $1,000. All other triple sevens pay $50. So how high would the progressive need to be to get to breakeven?
The probability of three seven of diamonds is combin(6,3)/combin(312,3) = 0.00000398937. The probability of three unsuited sevens is (combin(24,3)-combin(6,3))/combin(312,3) = 0.000399735. According to my blackjack calculator the house edge is 0.6233%. The expected loss on a $5 bet would be 3.12 cents. Just the value of the $50 for three unsuited sevens is $50*0.000399735=2.00 cents. To make up the other 1.12 cents the meter would need to reach $2802.What changes should one make to blackjack basic strategy when playing just a single hand when the objective is to maximize the chance of winning that hand (for example when using a match play coupon)?
It depends if the player is allowed to double and split the match play portion of the bet. Usually the player is not allowed to, which works against the player. The following chart shows how to adjust your double and splitting strategy, assuming the player may not double the match play and if the player splits the match play rides on the first hand played, based on infinite decks and the dealer standing on soft 17. The hit/stand strategy is the same. Great site! I would call it the best among all the gambling sites I have seen on the web. A question about surrender in blackjack. Some casinos (for example Foxwoods) give match play coupons for blackjack. One good thing about the coupon is that when you surrender, you only lose half of your own money, and are allowed to keep the whole coupon. (But you lose your coupon no matter you win or lose.) I guess you want to surrender more in this situation, but was wondering what is the correct strategy? Thanks!
Thanks. You should be doing a lot of surrendering if you can keep the match play. My blackjack appendix 9 is good for questions such as this. A match play is worth just about half of face value. So if the expected value of the hand is less than -1/3 you should surrender. Assuming the dealer hits a soft 17 here are those times.
*Player 6 vs. 10-A
*Player 12 vs. 9-A
*Player 13 vs. 8-A
*Player 14 vs. 8-A
*Player 15 vs. 7-A
*Player 16 vs. 7-A
*Player 17 vs. 8-A
*Player 8,8 vs. 9-A
The strategy is the same if the dealer stands on a soft 17, except the player will not surrender 6 against an ace. A local casino had a promotion on their over/under 13 side bet in blackjack. If your first two cards are suited you receive a $5 ’action chip.’ If your first two cards and the dealer’s up card are suited you receive a $10 action chip. The action chips are good for one bet only, the player keeps any winnings but always loses the action chips. The minimum bet is $10. Six decks of cards are used. What is the house edge on the over/under 13 bet?
Before considering the bonuses, the house edge is lower on the over bet at 6.55%, as I show in my blackjack appendix 8. The probability of three suited cards is 4×combin(78,3)/combin(312,3) = 4×76076/5013320 = 0.060699. The probability the player’s two cards are suited, but the dealer’s card is not, is (4×combin(78,2)×234)/(combin(312,2)×310) = 2810808/15039960 = 0.186889. Let’s assume the action chips are worth 49.5% of face value. Then the bonuses are worth 0.495×(0.060699×$10 + 0.186889×$5) = $0.76301. The expected loss on the over bet is $10×0.0655 = $0.655. So each $10 over 13 bet is worth $0.76301 - $0.655 = 10.8 cents. Free slots play the best free slots. The overall player advantage is 1.08% on a $10 over 13 bet.I’d like your advice on a blackjack coupon. As I understand the rules, the coupon doubles any win, up to $25, and can be presented any time. If I bet $16.50, and wait for a blackjack to use it, the coupon will double the blackjack win of $24.75. Or should I bet $25, and use it on the first win of any kind? What is the expected loss both ways? Please assume a house edge of 0.64%.
First let’s calculate the expected loss if you bet $16.50, and wait until a winning blackjack to use the coupon. The probability of a player blackjack is the number of aces × number of tens / combinations of ways to choose two cards out of the 312 in the shoe. That comes to 24×96/combin(312,2) = 0.0474895. If both of you have a blackjack, the coupon does you no good. Assuming the player has a blackjack, the probability of a dealer blackjack is 23 × 95 / combin(310,2) = 0.045621. So, the probability of the player having a winning blackjack is 0.0474895 * (1-0.045621) = 0.045323, or once in 22.06 hands. So, your way of playing 22.06 hands at $16.50 each would have an expected loss of 22.06 × $16.50 × .0064=$2.33.
Next, let’s calculate the expected loss if you bet $25, and wait until the first win to use the coupon. The probability of any win is 42.42%, as found in my blackjack appendix 4. This is not exactly the applicable statistic for this situation, due to complications in splitting, but close enough. So, the expected number of hands to play to have a winning hand is 1/0.4242 = 2.36. The expected loss of betting 2.36 hands of $25 each is 2.36 × $25 × .0064=$0.38, which has a cost 84% less than waiting for a blackjack.There is a “Bad — It’s the New Good” promotion running in the high-limit room at the Barona casino. If the dealer in blackjack gets a 7-card 21, then all players actively wagering at the table will get $500. Also, if the dealer gets an 8-card 21, then all players at the table will split a progressive jackpot, which starts at $25,000, plus players at the other high-limit tables will each get $500. What is the probability of these events, and what is the value per hand to the player?
The following table shows the probability of a dealer 21-point hand according to the number of cards and number of decks. 60 free spins coin master free.Probability of Dealer 21-Point HandCards1 Deck2 Decks6 Decks20.04826550.04779690.047489530.05375570.05302460.052565640.01840490.01849450.018538850.003105760.003260010.0033588160.0002917170.0003445590.00038038770.00001600930.00002348970.00002925180.0000004564110.0000009973250.0000015235690.000000004669910.00000002390120.0000000526866100.00000000000642140.0000000002622290.000000001151521100.00000000000091790.000000000014882712000.000000000000100313000.0000000000000003
The next table shows the value in cents of the three prizes. The row for the 7-card prize is the value per hand of the $500 bonus for a dealer 7-card 21. The row for the 8-card prize is the value per hand of a $25,000 prize for a dealer 8-card 21. That should be multiplied by the ratio of the current jackpot to $25,000, for the value at any given moment. The row for the envy prize is the value per hand dealt at all other tables in the room of the $500 prizes for the jackpot hitting at another table. Value of Prizes per Hand DealtPrize1 Deck2 Decks6 Decks7-card $500 win0.80¢1.17¢1.46¢8-car
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