Re: Has anybody figured out the house edge in party bj?
1. I don't see it being very realistic to get any kind of edge when they only deal less than 1 deck of an 8-deck shoe.
Maybe if you spread 1-40 or so and were willing to deal with some REALLY high freaking variance.
But I don't even think this would work.
You would need a running-count of +16 after a half-deck just to get to a true-count that would approach break-even.
How often will you have a RC of +16 after the first 26 cards?
By that time it's almost time to shuffle again anyway.
I just don't think it can be profitable with such short penetration.
2. Do you even get to know when they actually shuffle? Obviously this would be necessary too.
3. To the original poster. Without looking up anything...I would guess that an 8-deck 'mostly' continuous-shuffle game with S17 has a house-advantage in the 1.5% range.
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