What is the EV of blackjack with less than one deck ?

Hi all,

i want to know the EV of blackjack played with 3/4 deck, or 39 cards. The Wizard gives a marvelous calculator which can determine the house edge under 6,912 possible rule combinations, but obviously the option mentioned here is not included. I would appreciate if anyone can answer the question(better with an explanation) as what the house edge is with these options:

* 3 entire suits of a 52 cards deck, or 39 cards,
* Dealer stands on a soft 17,
* Player can double after a split,
* Player can double on any first two cards,
* Player can re-split to 2 hands,
* Player can hit split aces,
* Blackjack pays 3 to 2, and
* Assuming perfect play according to conditions above

Thanks in advance.

Quote: ilikevp

Hi all,

i want to know the EV of blackjack played with 3/4 deck, or 39 cards. The Wizard gives a marvelous calculator which can determine the house edge under 6,912 possible rule combinations, but obviously the option mentioned here is not included. I would appreciate if anyone can answer the question(better with an explanation) as what the house edge is with these options:

* 3 entire suits of a 52 cards deck, or 39 cards,
* Dealer stands on a soft 17,
* Player can double after a split,
* Player can double on any first two cards,
* Player can re-split to 2 hands,
* Player can hit split aces,
* Blackjack pays 3 to 2, and
* Assuming perfect play according to conditions above

Thanks in advance.

I don't have your answer, but a SD game with the rules above would be positive off the top. So a 3/4 deck game would be as well.

Yes i think you're right, the trend seems to go that way. But i still hope to get an exact result. ^_^

this game would be very countable. haha.

If you want exact results you need to perform exact combinational analysis.

However you could find some estimate. If you think that the avoided BJ push has the largest effect on the overall EV for small decks (in contrast to strategy derivations), then you could "easily" extrapolate to your sub-singledeck game.