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BetUS has a promotion on Thursdays where a Blackjack pays 9/5, instead of 3/2 or the dreaded 6/5. I've looked and can't find any information on what this does to the house edge. I know that 6/5 increases the house edge on average from 0.45% to 1.82%. As 9/5 is better than 3/2, does anyone know...

Playing a 6 deck, normal rules, perfect basic strategy, what are the odds of losing 15 hands in a row? Been playing for 16 years, I've never experienced that before. Thought one of the math whizzes here could compute the odds.

I only played there once, maybe 10 years ago. Just basic strategy and the most basic level of counting, won $400 in 3 hours and got the hell out.

Losing Streak in Mesquite Stopped at Eureka Casino in Mesquite Nevada on a road trip last week. Sat down and lost 18 hands in a row. I've never taken a beating that hard before. My biggest losting streak before this was 14, at San Manuel. Biggest winning streak: I've hit 10 in a row...

I have no intention of ever playing at the Los Angeles casinos that offer that silly No-Bust Blackjack or California Blackjack, but a friend recently got a job at Hawaiian Gardens casino, and they offer normal Vegas-style Blackjack, with a few variations, and I'm trying to compute the house...

new single deck game at Soboba & field report Just got back from another mission to Soboba Indian Casino, and they've now added a single deck game. Shitty rules though. Unlike the rest of the 2 & 6 deck games, they Hit Soft 17 in the single deck, and only allow Doubling on 10 & 11, no DAS, no...

SoCal Casinos (Morongo) that may be the standard in the midwest, but out here, the indians seem to be divided into two camps, hit soft 17 and stand on soft 17. I of course try to only play where they stand on soft 17, but with the exception of morongo, the places that hit on soft 17 allow...

Morongo sucks Morongo has the worst game of all the Indian casinos in southern California. They only offer 8-deck games. They hit on a Soft 17, no surrender, they do allow DAS and they do allow you to replit aces, but you can't continue to hit on them by any more than one card. They...