Unusual BJ Switch rule set
6 decks, CSM
Dealer stands on soft 17
Double on hard 9-11 only
European No Hole Card, unswitched blackjacks are not paid until the dealer draws
Switched blackjack counts as 21 points
Quote: ParadroidCan someone estimate the house edge under the rules at my local casino, Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm?
6 decks, CSM
Dealer stands on soft 17
Double on hard 9-11 only
European No Hole Card, unswitched blackjacks are not paid until the dealer draws
Switched blackjack counts as 21 points
With an infinite deck, instead of 6 decks, I get low house edge of 0.2910% for your rules. I assumed 3 splits allowed including aces, player loses all double and split bets to a dealer's blackjack, and unswitched blackjack is paid against a dealer's 22.
For comparison, my infinite deck results for regular Blackjack Switch has a house edge of 0.6726%, while the Wizard gives the house edge for the regular H17 6-deck game as 0.58%.
The Wizard lists the edge for stand on s17 as-0.30%. But the op, s rules were nosoft dbl and European no hole card and a unswitched bj doesn't get paid right away. So I would think it would be a higher casino edge.Quote: ChesterDogQuote: ParadroidCan someone estimate the house edge under the rules at my local casino, Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm?
6 decks, CSM
Dealer stands on soft 17
Double on hard 9-11 only
European No Hole Card, unswitched blackjacks are not paid until the dealer draws
Switched blackjack counts as 21 points
With an infinite deck, instead of 6 decks, I get low house edge of 0.2910% for your rules. I assumed 3 splits allowed including aces, player loses all double and split bets to a dealer's blackjack, and unswitched blackjack is paid against a dealer's 22.
For comparison, my infinite deck results for regular Blackjack Switch has a house edge of 0.6726%, while the Wizard gives the house edge for the regular H17 6-deck game as 0.58%.
Quote: Hunterhill...The Wizard lists the edge for stand on s17 as-0.30%. But the op, s rules were nosoft dbl and European no hole card and a unswitched bj doesn't get paid right away. So I would think it would be a higher casino edge.
I agree with your objections and will continue to check my results.
Quote: ParadroidJust to clarify, an unswitched blackjack does get paid against a dealer 22.
I doubled checked my calculations, and I still get an infinite-deck house edge of 0.2910% for your rules. Here are my results for several rule combinations:
| H17/S17 | Double | Eur./Amer. | House Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| S17 | all | European | 0.2863% |
| H17 | all | European | 0.6861% |
| S17 | 9 to 11 | European | 0.2910% |
| H17 | 9 to 11 | European | 0.6927% |
| S17 | all | American | 0.2710% |
| H17 | all | American | 0.6726% |
| S17 | 9 to 11 | American | 0.2757% |
| H17 | 9 to 11 | American | 0.6792% |
The Wizard gives 0.58% as the house edge for the standard 6-deck Las Vegas game, and I get a corresponding infinite-deck edge of 0.67%, which is 0.09% higher. If the infinite-deck edge for your rules is 0.29%, then the 6-deck edge might be 0.29% - 0.09% or 0.20%.
How often will a player end up pushing on bj ?
Quote: HunterhillNice work Chesterdog.
How often will a player end up pushing on bj ?
For a 6-deck shoe, the player would be dealt two blackjacks and the dealer would be dealt blackjack 0.0095% of the time, and the player would be dealt one blackjack and dealer would be dealt blackjack 0.4143% of the time. And to repeat, the player's dealt blackjack doesn't push against the dealer's 22.
By the way, I believe one reason why the H17 game is so much worse than the S17 game is that the dealer has a higher probability of getting 22.
