Originally Posted by smurgerburger View Post
So this game has a .5% HE with basic strategy, $100 max bet, and 100 hph playing at max speed.

So assuming perfect play (obviously not realistic but still), this machine generates an absolute max of $50 per hour per player for the house.

I can see why it has so few installations.


ETA - Oh wow you can redouble? Or you can hit say a 6 vs a 7-9, and THEN double, if you catch the appropriate card?

Yeah that $200brand/hr figure is not holding up.
One can easily get out 1000 rounds per hour on the Game King and Casino Wizard blackjack games. So why was KJ doing only 100 rounds per hour?

My guess is it was a blackjack console with 4 or 5 seats. Those games can move annoyingly slow. You have to wait on other players to make their bets. Then there is a countdown before the cards are dealt. Then you have to wait on others to play their hands before you get your turn. So you are not getting out very many rounds per hour.

Tony Bigcharles would play all five seats of a Dealer's Angels. Going from minimum bet to maximum bet with the count.

The public plays blackjack badly. I've observed very poor play on those blackjack consoles. So the house edge is probably more than double the theoretical.

I was told by someone that a new video blackjack game was introduced at his locaal casino recently. I know this about new games. When I find a new exploitable game in a casino it can take months for it to spread to other casinos.