Blackjack in Eastern Europe, rule variations

#1
Hello, I've been playing black jack under very interesting rules since like a week and I still cant figure out the right strategy. The rules are very favourable:
- no hole card, surrender vs any card allowed (except vs Ace, then surrender is available only if the player has 16)
- surrender at any number of cards (you can draw and after that you can surrender)
- player may double on any number of cards, double after split available, splitting up to 4 times (cant double split aces)
- rescue option available (that means that after double down you are able to surrender your bet)
- resplitting aces allowed, you are not able to hit split aces though ... (you are able to surrender if you have 13,14,15,16 vs dealer's 10)
- 6 decks, the casino uses shuffling machine

How does that change my basic strategy? I'm actually asking about the resuce option, do you surrender against 2 or 3 if you have 16 or less after double? Do you double 11 vs 10, 9 vs 7,8?
 

tezzadiver

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#2
Hi welcome to the forum. Everything sounded good until you said CSM. But the rules sound very favourable to a BS player. Can anyone run a sim on this?
 

rrwoods

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#3
morbeo said:
casino uses shuffling machine
Continuous?

Either way, those rules sound like they might be positive off-the-top with correct BS. Not sure what correct BS is with the rescue and surrender-any-time options.
 
#5
Its a continuous shuffling machine, yeah. The dealer stands on soft 17.
As a bonus the casino offers 25 levs (thats the bulgarian currency, 2 levs equals 1 euro) free credit if get two aces and your bet is from 10 to 50 levs, 50 levs free creedit if your bet is from 50 to 100 levs, and you can get 100 levs free credit if your bet is higher that 100 levs. If not the rules, that would make a BS player a winner in this game, right?
 

bj21abc

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#8
This does sound like an interesting game. I think it may be simmable with CVD - including index/BS generation, I'll take a look later on today.
 

Southpaw

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#9
bj21abc said:
This does sound like an interesting game. I think it may be simmable with CVD - including index/BS generation, I'll take a look later on today.
For index generation, there are multiple parameters of this game that cannot be programmed into the CVIndex application of CVData.

SP
 
#10
morbeo said:
Hello, I've been playing black jack under very interesting rules since like a week and I still cant figure out the right strategy. The rules are very favourable:
- no hole card, surrender vs any card allowed (except vs Ace, then surrender is available only if the player has 16)
- surrender at any number of cards (you can draw and after that you can surrender)
- player may double on any number of cards, double after split available, splitting up to 4 times (cant double split aces)
- rescue option available (that means that after double down you are able to surrender your bet)
- resplitting aces allowed, you are not able to hit split aces though ... (you are able to surrender if you have 13,14,15,16 vs dealer's 10)
- 6 decks, the casino uses shuffling machine

How does that change my basic strategy? I'm actually asking about the resuce option, do you surrender against 2 or 3 if you have 16 or less after double? Do you double 11 vs 10, 9 vs 7,8?
surr against 8,9,10,A, don't surr to 2,3...7.
any shoe game there?
 
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