OK, I finally tried this promo for the first time, got stuck on the seat for 3 hours as it’s too much fun waiting for the suited blackjack for the suit of the week! Most interesting part was, people never cheered for the non-suited blackjacks. When someone got a regular blackjack, they were like “mehh, I guess I’ll take it” 
In the evening, the table was packed pretty much the whole time, with everyone seemed to be knowing about and enjoying the promo, good players and ploppies alike.
I think the rules are more lax than it seemed to us. So, all the suited blackjacks in the “suit of the week” get 3X payout (not only the royal blackjack). All other suited blackjacks get 2X payout. So, 4 out of 64 possible blackjacks get 3X, as opposed to our initial thinking of 1 out of 64.
Also, it looks like this place silently added surrender to its rules. I found about it very recently when a seemingly good player surrendered. I didn’t even know about it, and since the dealer confirmed, I came back on the promo night with all surrender BS moves memorized (this is my first time playing with surrender). I made a lot of use for this one, with curious looks from other players. Apparently 99% of their players don’t know that they have this rule. And 99.9% doesn’t surrender at all (most don’t know, some know but act macho saying “I never surrender”).
Since they offer surrender, the normal house edge is now 0.58%. And based on my full understanding of the rules, my calculation of the player edge is 0.31% at the promo times, which sounds great!
I’m a BS player and am kind of scared from the variance on blackjack, so my bets varied from $3 to 2 hands of $6, but I probably averaged $4. Now, if an AP with a big bankroll plays this game, I’m sure he’ll be betting table max, but it’ll stand out like crazy because this is a small shop and the pit watches closely.
By the way, I was able to get one 3X payout within three hours and it feels great! There were lots of 3X and 2X payouts on the table, I was the one with the least luck on those. But despite that, I ended up with $50+ profit.
In the evening, the table was packed pretty much the whole time, with everyone seemed to be knowing about and enjoying the promo, good players and ploppies alike.I think the rules are more lax than it seemed to us. So, all the suited blackjacks in the “suit of the week” get 3X payout (not only the royal blackjack). All other suited blackjacks get 2X payout. So, 4 out of 64 possible blackjacks get 3X, as opposed to our initial thinking of 1 out of 64.
Also, it looks like this place silently added surrender to its rules. I found about it very recently when a seemingly good player surrendered. I didn’t even know about it, and since the dealer confirmed, I came back on the promo night with all surrender BS moves memorized (this is my first time playing with surrender). I made a lot of use for this one, with curious looks from other players. Apparently 99% of their players don’t know that they have this rule. And 99.9% doesn’t surrender at all (most don’t know, some know but act macho saying “I never surrender”).
Since they offer surrender, the normal house edge is now 0.58%. And based on my full understanding of the rules, my calculation of the player edge is 0.31% at the promo times, which sounds great!
I’m a BS player and am kind of scared from the variance on blackjack, so my bets varied from $3 to 2 hands of $6, but I probably averaged $4. Now, if an AP with a big bankroll plays this game, I’m sure he’ll be betting table max, but it’ll stand out like crazy because this is a small shop and the pit watches closely.
By the way, I was able to get one 3X payout within three hours and it feels great! There were lots of 3X and 2X payouts on the table, I was the one with the least luck on those. But despite that, I ended up with $50+ profit.
