Fair Blackjack

Playing Single Deck Blackjack

It is popular knowledge that the game of single-deck blackjack, compared to all other blackjack variations played in casinos, provides the highest odds to a blackjack player. Very popular, but sadly, not generally accepted.

In general, the odds of any game in blackjack be it single-deck, two-decks or multiple-decks are utilized. The main reason for the popularity of this blackjack variation is chosen by sincere blackjack players is due to the fact that it offers more convenience in monitoring the changing probabilities from one hand to another. As such, it is suggested to find casinos which provide single-deck blackjack.

At times, it could be a bit tougher to locate a casino providing a real single-deck blackjack for a lot of reasons. The first reason is that casinos have the full knowledge that sincere players of blackjack have been notified to search for a casino offering single-deck blackjack, and that making money is possible with a table full of serious players.

Casinos regularly exerts efforts to alleviate this scenario by either telling the dealer to utilize card counting or shuffle tracking when the chances of winning are greatly tilted towards the favor of the players, or by utilizing another method. If casinos instruct the dealers to shuffle, and this becomes frequent at a time when the players realize that they are finally earning an income, such casino will not be able to maintain their frequent blackjack clients.

Because of this, the method used by a lot of casinos in single-deck games is to reduce the amount of payout when a player gets a ""natural blackjack" from the traditional $3 payout for each bet worth $2 to a new payout amount of $6 for each bet worth $5 bet. A "natural blackjack" is a couple of cards totaling twenty one which is made up of an ace and a card with a value of ten, which is more usual than a blackjack obtained from having more than three cards.

The result is a significant decrease in probabilities, a decrease of 20% in the percentage of payout for the most usual victory. The general impact of this modification is to tilt the odds in the casino's favor by 1.25 percent which worsens the odds of a player when playing the regular multiple-deck game.

So be careful of this technique, and be ready to do some scouting for single-deck blackjack games to compete.