American Rules

The rows in the following table are all combinations of the common rules. The columns represent the number of decks. The cells provide the player advantage as a percent. An example: Look up S17, LS under the Six column. The number is -.500. This means that in a six-deck game with dealer stands on 17 and late surrender, you have a .5% disadvantage. That is, for every $100 you bet at the start of the round, you will lose 50 cents. You will also note that some of the numbers are positive indicating an advantage for the player. Alas, such games are now extremely rare in casinos. The Single-Fixed column provides numbers for single-deck games where a fixed number of rounds are dealt. All other columns assume that a cut-card is used.

You can see that Single-Cut is worse than Single-Fixed. Only two decimals are provided in the Single-Cut column because the edge varies more in single-deck than in multi-deck according to number of rounds. Abbreviations are defined on the next page.

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