The Palms Casino in Las Vegas I believe has pioneered a side bet that they call, "Lucky Ladies". I have noticed it turning up at a few other casinos also. The bet is as follows, you place $1 - $25 in a circle to the right of your normal bet and if your first two cards are a twenty (either two tens or an Ace-9) you get paid 4 - 1. If the cards match in suit the payoff is 9 - 1 and if the cards match in both suit and number the payoff is 19 - 1. If the first two cards are both Queen of Hearts then the payoff is 125 - 1 and finally if your first two cards are the Queen of Hearts and the dealer shows blackjack, the payoff is 1000 - 1.
Has anybody studied if a tens count, like the one first proposed in the seminal work by Edward O. Thorpe, "Beat The Dealer", could be used to get an advantage in this side bet. If so it could be a good camouflage to occasionally switch to a tens count, flat bet your blackjack game and try to take advantage of the side bet.
I don't imagine that the usual counts that we use, KO, Hi-Opt, Wong's Hi-LO, etc. would be of much use here as they do not weight the ten sufficiently.
Has anybody studied if a tens count, like the one first proposed in the seminal work by Edward O. Thorpe, "Beat The Dealer", could be used to get an advantage in this side bet. If so it could be a good camouflage to occasionally switch to a tens count, flat bet your blackjack game and try to take advantage of the side bet.
I don't imagine that the usual counts that we use, KO, Hi-Opt, Wong's Hi-LO, etc. would be of much use here as they do not weight the ten sufficiently.
