Every kind of blackjack you will meet online, priced honestly: the rules that matter, what each one costs, and which have a free game you can try first.
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Blackjack is not one game. Casinos deal it under dozens of names, some of them genuine rule changes worth seeking out and some of them the same game with a worse payout. These pages price each one: what the rules actually are, what they cost you, and where you can play the game free first.
Rule formats you will meet under many different names. What the game is called matters less than the rules it deals, so each page prices the rules.
The New Jersey ruleset, and one of the friendliest standard sets you can sit down to: eight decks, but the dealer stands on soft 17, you can double on anything, double after splitting and surrender. Our engine prices it at 0.39%, and you can play it free below.
Two, three or five hands against one dealer hand. Playing more hands does not improve your odds, it multiplies them in both directions, and every hand is still settled on its own.
Standard blackjack dealt from two decks: a 0.20% house edge with good rules, roughly half the six-deck price. Practice it free, get the exact two-deck strategy chart, and check the two table rules that make or break the game.
Both dealer cards are dealt face up. You pay for that information twice: the dealer wins all ties, and blackjack pays only even money. Play it free below, with a coach that solves each hand.
The dealer takes no hole card, and the second card only arrives after you have finished playing. That sounds cosmetic; it is not, because a dealer blackjack then takes your doubled and split bets too.
You are betting your first two cards make a pair. Exact odds: 7.47% of hands pair up at eight decks, returning 95.90% on the common 25/12/6 paytable. Here is the full math and when to leave it alone.
The British branch of the 21 family: twist, stick and buy, the dealer's cards stay hidden, ties lose, and the two best hands pay 2:1. Play it free below and learn why your blackjack chart does not work here.
On paper the best deal in the game: one deck with classic rules tips the edge to the player. You will almost never be offered exactly that, so this page shows where casinos take the value back, and lets you play a real single-deck game free.
Blackjack from a 48-card Spanish deck: the 10s are gone, but your 21 always wins, long hands earn bonus payouts, and with its own strategy the game prices up with the best tables in the house. Play a Spanish-rules game free below.
Specific titles from one studio each, with that game's own rules and payouts read from the game itself.
Betsoft's multi-hand blackjack with a face-down burn card you can trade your second card for. The mechanic is novel; the price is not, and it is the first thing to know: blackjack pays even money here, not 3:2.
Play two hands and swap their second cards, turning two dead hands into a made twenty. The compensation: a dealer 22 pushes, and blackjack usually pays even money.
You see the dealer's upcard before committing your full bet, and may raise it once you have. The game charges for that twice: a Spanish deck with no 10s, and blackjack paying even money. Play it free below.
Nucleus Gaming's Spanish 21: six Pirate decks with every 10 removed, paid back with a full bonus ladder for long 21s, 6-7-8 and 7-7-7, plus a fixed jackpot for suited sevens against a dealer seven.
Ordinary blackjack with one extra circle: a side bet paying when your first two cards share a suit, topping out at suited aces. It wins one hand in four and still costs 3.41%, roughly eight times the game beside it.
Nucleus Gaming's multi-hand blackjack with a sevens side bet. Unusually for a themed game it keeps the two rules that matter: blackjack pays 3:2 and the dealer stands on all 17s.
Dealt a hard 15, 16 or 17? Zap it and take two fresh cards, free. The catch rewrites the game: a dealer 22 pushes instead of losing.
