With an abundance of these three cards in the shoe, the dealer is more likely to have hands with a large number of cards. Notice how much larger the EOR is for the cards A, 2, 3 than for any other card.

A negative EOR means that the edge moves towards the house side if the card is removed. A positive EOR means that the edge moves towards the player side if the card is removed. The EOR tells the change in house edge by removing a single card of that rank and re-computing the house edge. The following table gives the effect of removal (EOR) for each card. Here is the combinatorial analysis for this pay table:

Otherwise, the player loses the BBJ bet.

Dealer busts with 6 cards pays 30-to-1.

Dealer busts with 7 cards pays 100-to-1.

Dealer busts with 8+ cards pays 200-to-1.

This is the most common pay table used by card rooms banked by one of the largest corporations in California. To begin with, I am going to focus on one specific vulnerable pay table for BBJ. There is also a progressive version of BBJ that I did not investigate at all. I investigated all eight and found that five of these eight are vulnerable and three are not. There are eight different pay tables for BBJ that are in use or recommended. My intuition was both right and wrong: the difference is the pay table. When I was asked about the vulnerability of BBJ to card counting by one of California’s largest banking corporations, I told them “not very.” After all, the dealer needs low cards to generate hands with lots of cards, he needs mid-cards to give stiff totals of 15 and 16, and he needs high cards to bust hands. This article covers card counting BBJ in a six-deck shoe game. There are a lot of details to share, so I’ve decided to break up the discussion into the six-deck case and the two-deck case. The payout is then based on the total number of cards in the dealer’s busted hand. The player who makes the BBJ wager wins if the dealer busts. One of the most common blackjack side bets in California card rooms is known as Buster Blackjack (BBJ).

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