Yes. Dr. B, the casino website entitles the game that you described as "Las Vegas Blackjack" and states
(verbatim) "Bust pays 5:2"
That is a so-called "free bonus" You are certainly not betting that the dealer will bust. The dealer bust is
too infrequent to matter, especially when it is in the context of a game that pays 6/5 on BJ's!
I guess that you are confusing 5/2 with 5/1. The latter is the payoff on that bogus BlackJack bonus.
If any suited pair, not just two specific cards, are paid 2/1, (as it is in occasional promotions in the USA),
then the bonus payoff improves the House Edge by 2.36/4 = 0.69% ! and that is a BIG BONUS!
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