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    House Money side bet

    Anybody know of a house edge calculation for the House Money side bet? This bet pays for a pair or straight on players first 2 cards, with the option of adding the money to the players BJ bet.
    Don S I don't want your head to explode, but look into this.

    I play side bets at my local casinos now as part of my ploppy camouflage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by snakeplisskin View Post
    Anybody know of a house edge calculation for the House Money side bet? This bet pays for a pair or straight on players first 2 cards, with the option of adding the money to the players BJ bet.
    Don S I don't want your head to explode, but look into this.

    I play side bets at my local casinos now as part of my ploppy camouflage.
    It's easy enough to figure the probability of a pair or a straight, but you don't say what the payout is. Is this it? https://www.jacksoncasino.com/house-money-side-bet

    Don
    Last edited by DSchles; 07-13-2019 at 04:34 PM.

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    Regrettably i didnt commit the pay table to memory. They did have separate payouts for a straight flush and suited AK blackjack as in the site you reference, so let us assume it is the same. You must also consider the bj bet boosting factor when calculating the house edge, no?

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    Perfect. thank you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by snakeplisskin View Post
    Anybody know of a house edge calculation for the House Money side bet?<snip>
    snakeplisskin,

    If you use HiLo to count, and you have Green Chip access over at bj21, you should check the following post for the indexes for whether or not you should "add" after winning the sidebet:

    https://bj21.com/boards/green-chip-f...itive-ev-hands

    As an example, with T9 vs. the dealer's X, the "adding BS" is to add, but as the bj21 post shows, if the HiLo TC is +6 or higher, then you should NOT add, as in that case the 19 vs. X matchup is no longer +EV.

    Hope this helps!

    Dog Hand

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    This link does not work. Can you repost it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by aceside View Post
    This link does not work. Can you repost it?
    link works fine for me

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    Quote Originally Posted by aceside View Post
    This link does not work. Can you repost it?
    You likely need to be a member of bj21.com. If you’re not, you will be denied access.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aceside View Post
    This link does not work. Can you repost it?
    aceside,

    As Freightman mentioned, the link works only for those who have Green Chip access over at bj21.

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    I calculated the house advantage for the House Money only and found out it is 25% for the side bet alone without any parlay, but I don't know how to calculate the over all house advantage when we combine both the side bet and the parlay option together. Based on my calculation, this side bet is almost not countable using Hi Lo. Maybe a good approach toward this side bet is shuffle tracking?

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