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[RS]

What's the a advantage to this game? Less variance?

[Freebet]

So now we are debating which is better: push 22 or 6:5 BJs? Sad day. Both are crap.

Not quite. 6/5 BJs is worth 1.39% to the house while the 'Push 22' is worth 6.91% to the house so on a like for like basis the 6/5 BJ's are clearly better.

However, I was comparing the 6/5 Blackjack game with regular rules, to the 'Push 22' games that have other preferential rules for the player. 'Blackjack Switch' at 0.58% is far lower than any 6/5 game and is even lower than some regular 3/2 games.

The main difference between 6/5 and 'Push 22' is that one rule was added to increase house edge while the other was added as a necessity to allow for other player-favorable rules.

[Freebet]

What's the a advantage to this game? Less variance?

Yes, mainly. You are generally risking only 1 unit to win up to an additional 7 units at no cost to the player.

[jjjggg]

You can count this game, my guess is that it's quite a bit more vulnerable than regular BJ but not too much so and crowds/poor pen/inability of casinos to take big action would make it not worth your time to learn.

Any ideas on how to count this game or how to develop a count that would give an edge?

Thanks for any thoughts.

[White Guy]

I don't think you'd need a different count for it. Probably just use a standard count with a different basic strat.
IE: Do everything you can that's free.

[genini1]

You can count it with whatever count you use for regular blackjack. The main thing is learning the new basic strategy. Which is mostly just split or double on everything you can and play the 'free hand' more aggressively. The reason being a push on the free hand is just as bad as a loss so go nuts.

[RS]

The difference, from what I remember on the BS for this game is always split, always double 9,10,11, and play the free-split hand a bit more aggressively (ie: hit hard17v7).