• House edge and rules
• Basic strategy charts
• Unusual plays
• Recommended casinos
• Game location

House edge and rules

Cryptologic currently have a single-deck blackjack game with an overall payout of 99.59% and a house edge of 0.41%.

The rules are:

• Hard 17
• Double on 9, 10 and 11 only
• No Double After Split
• No peek - (ENHC)

These are very poor rules, which give this single deck game a return worse than some eight deckers.

Basic strategy charts

The following is the correct basic strategy for this game - the top row represents the dealer's up card, the left-hand column the player hand:

S = stand, H = hit, D = double, P = split

Unusual plays

There are two slightly unusual plays here, particularly if you're used to the standard multi-deck strategy. They are:

9 v. 2 = double, not hit.
77 v. 10 = stand, not hit.

Recommended casinos

The casino I recommend is:

  ♠ InterCasino ♠

Game location

For the location of the game see the screenshot below:

Ensure that you have the single deck game correctly selected - it sits right at the bottom of the blackjack menu in each of the casinos.

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