Standard blackjack against the dealer, staked in Old School RuneScape gold. Six decks, three side bets, and the entire shoe order is fixed and hashed before the first card is dealt - so the deck cannot be restacked mid-hand.
How to play Blackjack
Set your stake, and add Perfect Pairs, 21+3 or Lucky Ladies on the side if you want them.
Deal. You get two cards face up; the dealer gets one face up and one face down. If the dealer has blackjack, the hand ends there.
Hit to take another card, stand to keep your total, or double on your first two cards to double the stake and take exactly one more.
Split a pair into two hands by putting up a second stake of the same size. You can split once, and split aces get one card each.
The dealer draws to 16 and stands on every 17. A blackjack returns 2.425x your stake, other wins return 1.95x, and a tie returns your stake.
Side bets are settled on the deal and pay out whatever happens to the main hand.
About Blackjack
Blackjack is the one game here where your decisions change the result. Correct basic strategy - when to hit, stand, double and split against each dealer card - is worth learning before you sit down; played on instinct it costs a good deal more.
The three side bets are the opposite proposition: Perfect Pairs, 21+3 and Lucky Ladies all hit rarely and pay big when they do. They are a long shot rather than a value play - treat them as the flourish, not the reason you sat down.
The shoe is shuffled by a Fisher-Yates pass over six ordered decks using floats from the round's seed pair, and its hash is shown before the deal. When you rotate your seed you can regenerate the exact shoe order and check it against the hash you were given.
Blackjack FAQ
What are the blackjack side bets?
Perfect Pairs pays when your two cards are a pair, 21+3 pays when your two cards and the dealer's up-card make a three-card poker hand, and Lucky Ladies pays when your two cards total twenty. All three hit rarely and pay big - a long shot alongside the main hand, not a substitute for it.
Can the deck be rigged against me?
The full shoe order is fixed and hashed before the first card is dealt, and the hash is shown to you. Rotating your seed reveals the server seed so you can regenerate the shoe and confirm it matches.
What does a winning hand pay?
A blackjack returns 2.425x your stake and any other winning hand returns 1.95x. A doubled hand is paid on the doubled stake, and a tie returns your stake in full.
