Recently I heard about a single deck game that deals through the entire deck, but blackjacks pay even money. Is this game beatable, and if so is it worth playing? What kind of bet spreads?
Thanks.
I may be mistaken(if so please someone correct my aproach). First you need to know what is your starting disadvantage. You didn`t provide the rule set, so I assume:SD...+0.02
H17...-0.19
BJ pays 1:1...-2.32
total starting disadvantage..... -2.49
We can round this to 2.5 to make things clearer. Now multiply this by 2(same as dividing by 0.5) 5 is your TC you need to get to play even game. With ideal beting in reg. BJ game you`d bet in units what your TC is. In this case, you`ll be beting 1 unit till you reach + 5. (actually, the deeper in the deck, the smaller this TC needs to be because of the floating advantage). At TC of +6 you bet 6 units (this is the same as beting 2 units in reg. game). There`s nothing in between 1 and 6. so jumping from 1 to 6 will give you same advantage as beting 1-2 in reg. game, 1-7 as 1-3, etc. You didn`t specify the rules so your starting disadvantage may be lesser because taking even $ is allways correct play. Then, you can gain big advantage (I don`t know how many%) using the end play- see Beat the dealer.
Then, you can gain big advantage (I don`t know how many%) using the end play- see Beat the dealer.
Pointless putting a figure on it because you really can win as much money as you want with unrestricted end play. The key word here is unrestricted. With a full table for example Thorp outlines a strategy which would allow you to know the dealer's hole-card on alternate rounds, yielding an edge in excess of 5% even without a spread.
I very much doubt you could get away with that.
...and the house wins all ties!! What a ripoff.
