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Blackjack house advantage. It's important to know.

I found an awesome house edge calculating webpage online. Click here to go to it. If you have a smartphone you should consider placing a link to it on your desktop for quick reference.

I’m going to use it to calculate the house advantage at the casino that I deal cards at. Here is the breakdown of our single deck ($5 to $50) Royal Match game rules: Dealer peeks. DD on any first 2 cards. Split Ace’s get one card only. Double after split allowed. Split up to 4 hands. Early surrender. BJ pays 6 to 5 (sorry). 6 card Charlie (6 cards w/o busting wins automatically).

Add it all up and you come to a house advantage of 1.121%. the only really disadvantageous role is the 6 to 5 payout on a blackjack. Is it was a standard 3 to 2 payout the house advantage will be down to 0.239%, which on a single-deck game is about as close to even as you can get.

At any rate, please use this blackjack House advantage calculator to your advantage, no pun intended. It’s important to know just how much of an uphill battle you’re facing when you go up against the house.

It’s also important to know how to use the surrender option correctly. We will discuss that in a future post. Until then, good luck everybody.

PS – Don’t forget to check out the booklet that I sell on eBay entitled “How to win at casino blackjack.” It’s only $6.49 including shipping and available by clicking here.

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