sean murphy: No hole card BJ for Don/Norm/anybody else with an opinion

[sean murphy]

I have also had this superstitution that poorly shuffled cards in a European no hole card BJ game favors the house. In particular, with a European no hole card BJ game, the dealer draws his 2nd, 3rd, etc. cards in sequence or consecutively where as the player only draws his 3rd, 4th, etc. cards in sequence or consecutively.

Would someone with the necessary software be kind enough to run a simulation? Much thanks.

[Norm Wattenberger]

Unlikely that you would notice a difference. I ran a sim with a trivial riffle and restack. There was a loss of about 0.015%.

> I have also had this superstitution that poorly
> shuffled cards in a European no hole card BJ game
> favors the house. In particular, with a European no
> hole card BJ game, the dealer draws his 2nd, 3rd, etc.
> cards in sequence or consecutively where as the player
> only draws his 3rd, 4th, etc. cards in sequence or
> consecutively.

> Would someone with the necessary software be kind
> enough to run a simulation? Much thanks.