northeast oklahoma

there are currently 4 casinos within about 20 miles of Miami, Ok. no ante with a players card. Good conditions for low and moderate stakes counter. One place offers dd 75% pen and lsr. Two of the casinos offered promotions including 2:1 for suited bj and one of them offered 2:1 for any bj on at least one occasion over last 5 years.

Blackjack Insider upcoming issue has my article with additional info on the casino conditions or you can ask me on this website.
After 5 years of playing a few times a year, I was backed off by the last one. These are all small casinos. It would not be practical for me to play unnoticed for at least a few years.

S17 or H17?
DAS?
Resplit Pairs? How many times?
Resplit Aces? How many times?

What is ante in blackjack? I'm only familiar with that term in poker?

You have to have a player card to get the "no-Ante" deal and they do backoff players.

before being backed off. And I use no cover and am not shy about the bet spread. At least at one casino, I do not think there evaluation tools are real sophisticated. At one casino, pit boss picked up cards in tray on my large bet, looked through cards, and then countermeasures started. This was on about the 8th visit.

Probably not worth flying into, but anyone within 5 hours drive or anyone driving through it might be worth the trip.

Just offering a location that some players may never heard of or though of.

I cannot explain very well, but I will try. These are all Indian casinos. As I understand, the casinos are only supposed to make the ante off the blackjack. Regular player wins/losses are supposed to even out to where the casino makes no other money except from ante. Excess profit is supposed to be returned to players in the form of giveaways and promos. That partially explains why they offer good promos. But overall, even with those promos, they are obviously making money beyond the ante.

About 5 years ago, the Miami casinos started "paying the ante". Hard to explain, but they take the ante from the rack and place in a stack. So they are treating it like a separate pool of money.

Buffalo Run, has H17, DAS, no rsa, split other pairs up to 4 I believe. 75% pen. LSR. table limits 10/300 or 25/500.

Parameters Used:

2 Decks, 75% Pen, 3:2 non-suited BJ, 2:1 suited BJ, DOA, DAS, H17, Resplit to 4 except A-A, LS, Hi-Lo (Wong 94 Complete), Play all hands, Bet Unit $10, Betting Ramp: 1 on TC < 2, 2 on TC = 2 and 4 on TC >= 3, 1,000,000,000 Rounds

Results:

Win Rate/Hr = $28.14
IBA = 2.358%
Std. Error = .005
SCORE = 303.07

I don't think CV Data allows simulating the ante. I hope this helps.

I do happen to read BJ Insider, I've found some items of value in there -

I'd be interested in your opinion - who do you think of as being the BJI target audience - recreational AP's perhaps ? Conservative basic strategy players ? Gamblers in general ?