Number of Decks
In the first chart below, I have divided the tables by number of decks. I split single-deck tables into two groups — red denotes Blackjack pays 3:2 and green denotes BJ pays 6:5. I simply do not consider these the same games. Blue, orange, magenta and cyan denote 2, 4, 6 and 8 decks. There exist odd number of decks in some games due to automatic shufflers, but these have been removed from this chart.
We can see that six-deck games are the most common, but by no means an overwhelming majority. 10% of games are still single-deck. However, half of them are now BJ pays 6:5. 6:5 BJ is not even Blackjack in my mind.
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US |
Nevada |
California |
LA/MS |
Reno/Sparks |
Vegas |
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SD |
0.049 |
0.125 |
0.023 |
0.024 |
0.376 |
0.022 |
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SD 6:5 |
0.051 |
0.124 |
0.037 |
0.042 |
0.061 |
0.168 |
|
DD |
0.138 |
0.241 |
0.143 |
0.164 |
0.410 |
0.194 |
|
4D |
0.038 |
0.011 |
0.109 |
0.042 |
0.003 |
0.003 |
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6D |
0.557 |
0.398 |
0.533 |
0.649 |
0.125 |
0.446 |
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8D |
0.167 |
0.101 |
0.155 |
0.079 |
0.024 |
0.166 |
© 2009 Norman Wattenberger
