These pay tables pay 2, 2 and 4 respectively for busts with 3, 4 or 5 cards. The other group of pay tables are represented by pay table #6 above. The AP using system #2 will have an average edge over the house of 7.30% and will make the bet on 16.83% of his hands. If the AP uses system #2 against BBJ with pay table #2, on a fast heads-up game where he gets 200 rounds per hour, and the AP makes a $100 wager on BBJ whenever he has the edge, then the AP can earn $246 per hour on the BBJ side bet. These numbers indicate that BBJ has a high vulnerability to advantage play in the two-deck case. The following table summarizes the results of this simulation: To analyze system #2, I simulated one hundred million (100,000,000) two-deck shoes, with the cut card placed at 75 cards (29 cards from the end). He just wants situations that are likely to produce multi-card dealer hands. Dealer hands may bust or not, but that isn’t what the counter is going after. The cards A, 2, 3 often lead to multi-card hands, whereas 7, 8, 9, T are cards that lead to hands that typically finish in two or three cards. Intuitively, the counter is looking for situations when hands are likely to require a large number of cards to complete. The card counting system (system #2) I developed to use against the group of pay tables #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, has the following tags:

The combinatorial analysis given above corresponds to pay table #2 in the following. Here is a summary of the combinatorial analysis for six different pay tables for BBJ in the two-deck case. Here is the combinatorial analysis for this pay table in the two-deck case: The most common pay table for BBJ in both the six-deck game and two-deck game is (1,3,6,30,100,200) for busting with 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8+ cards respectively. In my opinion, this effect is the most interesting feature of the analysis of BBJ. I will digress at the end of this post into an obscure issue called the “cut card effect” that impacts the house edge for BBJ if a cut card is used. This article covers BBJ as a side bet for the two-deck game. I found that BBJ has moderate vulnerability in the six-deck case for one group of pay tables, but low vulnerability for the rest. I developed card counting systems for two distinct groups of these pay tables. There are at least eight different pay tables offered with BBJ. The payout is based on the number of cards in the dealer’s busted hand, with a top payout for an 8+ card dealer busted hand.

The player wins the BBJ side bet if the dealer busts. In this post, I discussed card counting the Buster Blackjack (BBJ) side bet in the six-deck case.

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