No Hole Card Blackjack
4/15/2022 admin
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Three Card Poker-Three card poker is a popular table game in most casinos, but it offers a low advantage for hole card players, just like blackjack. The edge when you see a down card is only a little over 3%.
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- The house has a larger edge in no-hole games because the absence of a hole card means the dealer who has an ace or a 10-value card face up has no opportunity to check for blackjack and stop play before any double downs or pair splits. The house takes all splits and doubles if the dealer then gets blackjack.
- For example, the card has or has not pips near the edge or corner. This chart shows the advantages for single-deck and six-deck games assuming that we see 0, 1%, 5% and 10% of the dealer's hole cards. No card counting is used and play is ideal. We can see that in single-deck, if we see only 1 out of 100 cards we nearly break even.
- What does affect your odds and your playing strategy in no-hole-card games is when a player loses both wagers made on splitting and doubling when the dealer’s second card gives her a blackjack. The latter is known as the European No Hole Card.
- Travel the world of casinos all over the globe and you'll come across a huge number of blackjack variations. But the main difference is between the US and Europe. Here in Europe, we play the no-hole-card rule. This rule of the gameplay will actually decrease the house odds for the player, even if only by less than 1 percentage point. Playing this rule along with the surrender/no.
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Hey all,
Quick question for you. Where I play the dealer doesn't take a hole card, but if you split or double down against a 10 or Ace, you only lose your original bet if the dealer ends up with a natural.
I know there is a European No Hole Card strategy, where you don't split Aces or 8's against 10 or Ace because you lose all of your wagers, including the splits and doubles.
When you only lose the original, I always thought you still split 8's against a 10 or an Ace. But I was just cruising through Arnold Snyder's website and saw this article:
Blackjack Variations: Aruba No-Hole Card Blackjack vs. European No Hole Card Blackjack
He says this near the bottom:
'The Aruba “no hole card” rule does, however, differ slightly from both the standard European version, and the American version. In Europe, if you double down or split a pair vs. a dealer ten or ace, and the dealer completes his hand to give himself a blackjack, the player will lose everything to the dealer’s natural. In the American casinos where the dealer does not take (or check) his hole card until after the players have played out their hands, a dealer blackjack will win only the original bet of the player.
In Aruba, the dealer will win only the player’s original bet, unless the player busts on one or more of his split hands, in which case the dealer will also win the bet(s) on the busted hands. The house advantage from this no-hole-card rule variation (dealer natural takes busts) is very small, about .01% (that’s one-hundredth of a percent, or about one penny for every hundred dollars bet). The only basic strategy change that you should make in Aruba, to compensate for this rule, is don’t split 8s vs. a dealer ten or ace.'
Sounds like they're saying in the US you only lose the original bet, and in Aruba you will also lose bets if you bust out one of your split hands. Surely they won't allow you to keep your wager in the US if you split and then bust?? I know they won't take your split wager or a subsequent double down wager, but surely if you bust the hand they take it, right?
I'm a little confused by this article. Help a brother out.
Quick question for you. Where I play the dealer doesn't take a hole card, but if you split or double down against a 10 or Ace, you only lose your original bet if the dealer ends up with a natural.
I know there is a European No Hole Card strategy, where you don't split Aces or 8's against 10 or Ace because you lose all of your wagers, including the splits and doubles.
When you only lose the original, I always thought you still split 8's against a 10 or an Ace. But I was just cruising through Arnold Snyder's website and saw this article:
Blackjack Variations: Aruba No-Hole Card Blackjack vs. European No Hole Card Blackjack
He says this near the bottom:
'The Aruba “no hole card” rule does, however, differ slightly from both the standard European version, and the American version. In Europe, if you double down or split a pair vs. a dealer ten or ace, and the dealer completes his hand to give himself a blackjack, the player will lose everything to the dealer’s natural. In the American casinos where the dealer does not take (or check) his hole card until after the players have played out their hands, a dealer blackjack will win only the original bet of the player.
In Aruba, the dealer will win only the player’s original bet, unless the player busts on one or more of his split hands, in which case the dealer will also win the bet(s) on the busted hands. The house advantage from this no-hole-card rule variation (dealer natural takes busts) is very small, about .01% (that’s one-hundredth of a percent, or about one penny for every hundred dollars bet). The only basic strategy change that you should make in Aruba, to compensate for this rule, is don’t split 8s vs. a dealer ten or ace.'
Sounds like they're saying in the US you only lose the original bet, and in Aruba you will also lose bets if you bust out one of your split hands. Surely they won't allow you to keep your wager in the US if you split and then bust?? I know they won't take your split wager or a subsequent double down wager, but surely if you bust the hand they take it, right?
I'm a little confused by this article. Help a brother out.