Bust Bonus Blackjack

I visited a small local casino in a place that I recently moved to and found out that on Blackjack they offer a

side bet called Bust Bonus (not available on-line). I searched through to find out what are

probabilities on this side bet but unfortunately the variants analyzed there do not match the variant used in

this casino.

This variant pays as follows:

Dealer bust with 3 cards 1:1
Dealer bust with 4 cards 2:1
Dealer bust with 5 cards 9:1
Dealer bust with 6 cards 50:1
Dealer bust with 7 cards 100:1
Dealer bust with 8 cards 250:1

Bet has to be placed before the round starts with no up card shown.
Dealer stands on all 17's.
The shue is full, I estimate the shoe to be 8 deck.
No surrender.

Could anyone kindly take time to brake down those numbers and tell if this offer is worth considering.

This looks to be an alternate paytable for "Buster Blackjack".
https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/side-bets/buster-blackjack/

Discussion at: https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/gambling/blackjack/26205-buster-blackjack/#post540652

This appears to be a less favorable paytable than the 6% house edge variant.

Thank you very much for the link, it is obviously the Evolution Gaming variant.
Good luck playing.

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I visited a small local casino in a place that I recently moved to and found out that on Blackjack they offer a

side bet called Bust Bonus (not available on-line). I searched through to find out what are

probabilities on this side bet but unfortunately the variants analyzed there do not match the variant used in

this casino.

This variant pays as follows:

Dealer bust with 3 cards 1:1
Dealer bust with 4 cards 2:1
Dealer bust with 5 cards 9:1
Dealer bust with 6 cards 50:1
Dealer bust with 7 cards 100:1
Dealer bust with 8 cards 250:1

Bet has to be placed before the round starts with no up card shown.
Dealer stands on all 17's.
The shue is full, I estimate the shoe to be 8 deck.
No surrender.

Could anyone kindly take time to brake down those numbers and tell if this offer is worth considering.
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The Wizard finds a house edge of -6.18% for your pay table. See the section "Evolution Gaming" here.

Here's a table based on the Wizard's numbers.


I don't know if card-counting this bet would be worthwhile, but you can get ideas for counting it here.