My wife wants to go on a cruise and it occurs to me that spending a little more for cruise with better blackjack rules would likely pay for itself.If anyone can tell me the rules on any cruise lines or a good place to find them I would really appreciate it.
I've seen 8D H17 games primarily. However, there are many stories of cheating by ship casinos shorting the deck (removing tens and aces) giving them a significantly higher advantage. There is no recourse, as there is no governing Gaming Authority at sea.
If you're a counter, count down at least 10 shoes before you consider playing. If most end in a plus count, stay far away. If you're not a counter, just count the actual TJQK and A cards you see. There should be, on average, 16 TJQK and 4 Aces per deck. So, if they deal 6 decks when the cut card comes out, you should have seen 96 TJKQ's and 24 Aces. If you see significantly less, shoe after shoe, don't play.
It never would have occurred to me that they would strip the deck without changing the name of the game to Spanish 21 or something else. With all the drunk players that don't know BS, you'd think their advantage was big enough anyway.
Unlike land based casino's, they can't milk their customers, so this one of the rare cases where it actually makes more sense to just go ahead and slaughter the cows instead of milking them.
After all, we see plenty of land-based casino's that adopt the slaughter mentality when it is clearly incorrect.
