Understanding Playtech Lucky Blackjack Online Game

Added: December 1, 2016

Online blackjack requires knowledge of the optimum strategy. If you make incorrect moves then you are likely to end up with a low average return. This keeps many online casino players away from blackjack variants. If you are not blackjack savvy, but still want to experience some of the excitement of the game, check out Lucky Blackjack from Playtech. It is actually a fixed odds game in which winning depends only on luck. Lucky Blackjack is live at all Playtech powered Australian online casinos such as Omni Casino and Mansion Casino.

In Lucky Blackjack only the cards of the dealer's hand are dealt. You have to bet on the final value of the hand and win if you guess right. The card and hand valuation is as in regular blackjack games. The dealer keeps hitting till the value of the hand exceeds or equals 17. So the dealer can end up with hand values from 17 to 21. The dealer can bust and be dealt a natural two card blackjack. These are the two additional outcomes that you can bet on. You can bet on one or more of the seven outcomes, but will win on only one of them. The winning bet will be paid according to the payout table. Winning on 17 has a payout of 5 to 1; 18 has a payout of 6 to 1; 19 has a payout of 6 to 1; 20 has a payout of 4 to 1; 21 has a payout of 12 to 1, bust hand has a payout of 2 to 1 and blackjack has a payout of 19 to 1.

Expert online casino players know that the correct criterion for choosing bets is not the payout offered but the house edge. Unfortunately Lucky Blackjack does not list the house edges for the various bets. You have to figure them out from the payouts and the probabilities of the different outcomes of the dealer's hand. The probabilities are generated using computer simulation. For players who do not want to get involved with the mathematics of the calculations, basic guidelines are given below. Bets on busting, 17 and 20 have very high house edges and these bets should be avoided like the plague. The remaining four bets have house edges of around 5%. This is comparable to the house edge in online pokies. Therefore you should bet on the dealer having a hand value of 18, 19, 21 or blackjack.