Blackjack

[KingDan]

Is there any difference between playing 3 hands at a time of $5 and one of $15?

I'm thinking no, but 3 hands would decrease variance. Can someone confirm?

[bholdr]

another interesting question would be:

which has higher variance and why: playing three seperate 5$ hands or playing three $5 hands per deal.

pzon?

[Maulik]

there are reasons for playing 3 hands, if you're counting cards to get through a god awful part of the shoe. The more hands you play the smaller variance you'll experience, needless to say, what goes on in any 100 shoes or however many you may play in a night is not statistically signifcant

holla

[PairTheBoard]

Playing 3 hands in one deal has higher variance than playing 3 hands on three seperate deals. The reason is in one deal you're up against one dealer hand. For example if the dealer has BJ you're likely to lose all three hands. On three seperate deals the dealer's unlikely to have 3 straight blackjacks.

PairTheBoard

[Chris Daddy Cool]

for a single deal, is your EV higher for a single hand at $15 or for 3 seperate hands at $5? or are they the same?

[KingDan]

Another one of these varying bet questions and ev.
For the intercasino bonus you need to clear a little over 2200 in WR. They give you the $90 to play with. How much should I be betting? It seems like a higher strategy makes more sense, and if I lose it I lose it... but how much is a good number to start with. Or does it not matter, and depend on how much i want to gambooooooooooooooooooooool.

[Iceman]

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another interesting question would be:

which has higher variance and why: playing three seperate 5$ hands or playing three $5 hands per deal.

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Playing three $5 hands per deal will have higher variance than playing three separate $5 hands, since hands on the same deal are more likely to win when the other hands on that deal win and vice versa.

[Iceman]

[ QUOTE ]
Another one of these varying bet questions and ev.
For the intercasino bonus you need to clear a little over 2200 in WR. They give you the $90 to play with. How much should I be betting? It seems like a higher strategy makes more sense, and if I lose it I lose it... but how much is a good number to start with. Or does it not matter, and depend on how much i want to gambooooooooooooooooooooool.

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Since online casinos shuffle every hand, the house edge against you is the same no matter what you do. It doesn't matter if you make 220 $10 bets, 22 $100 bets, or one $2200 bet.

What does differ is the variance. If you make a ton of tiny bets, then your final result is likely to be very close to your true expectation - around $80 ($90 from the bonus minus around $10 in losses). If you bet $100 at a time, you are looking at a significant chance of a large win, a slightly larger significant chance of a large loss, and some chance of roughly breaking even. Do you want action or a safe profit from bonus chasing?