Double down on all 2-card combinations, even after splits. So here i am playing another game, the 5deck bonus blackjack with the folowing set of rules:Īfter each hand played, a new 5 deck shoe is shuffled and dealt. Right after that session i was quite frustrated by the variance, so i decided to take a break, but i quickly changed my mind and told myself that the odds had to change somehow (stupid i agree). To confirm my though, i went to the wizard of odds website and i found in the appendix 4, details on the standard deviation in blackjack, that the odds of losing 47 units of wager by badluck over 500-600 hands was a bit less than 5% chance. is this usual? i don't think we can lose that much easily on a blackjack session where the house has a so tiny edge. I used the whole way a 2$ bet size (sometimes 1 or 4 but nothing over, no big donkwager) with the optimal strategy for this game and i hit this unbelievable variance. According to the wizard of odds and his list of rule variations, the house edge is a tiny 0.11% The game i played in order to gain the deposit bonus was a 1 deck game, stand all 17, double 9-11, split to 4 hands, no double after split and late surrender on dealer's 10 only. Sum of Final bet (due to double and splits): 1258$ Okay i just tried the 5Dimes casino online because they have pretty good blackjack games (House edge under 0.1%) but unfortunately, my little trip didn't go so well
