Last Updated: January 20, 2019
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Effect of Card Removal in Blackjack
Introduction
The following table shows the effect on the player's expected value by removing one of each given card from a six-deck shoe. These numbers were based on these rules: Double on any two cards, double after split allowed, split anything only once, and strategy adjustments for the changed deck composition.
Effect of Removal — Six-Deck Shoe
| Card | Stand Soft 17 |
Hit Soft 17 |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 0.069% | 0.071% |
| 3 | 0.082% | 0.086% |
| 4 | 0.110% | 0.117% |
| 5 | 0.141% | 0.143% |
| 6 | 0.079% | 0.084% |
| 7 | 0.041% | 0.038% |
| 8 | -0.008% | -0.010% |
| 9 | -0.040% | -0.045% |
| 10 | -0.091% | -0.097% |
| Ace | -0.094% | -0.084% |
The source for this table is the amazing Composition Dependent Combinatorial Analyzer at bjstrat.net.
Internal Links
- Blackjack Side Bets
- Introduction to Card Counting
- The Hi-Lo Count
- The Wizard's Ace-Five Count
- When to Surrender in Blackjack
- Value of a Free Ace
- Dealer Exposes Both Cards
- Splitting Strategy for the Back Players
- Double after Splitting Aces Allowed
- Continuous Shuffling Machines
- Cut Card Effect
- Variance in Blackjack
- 678 and 777 Bonuses in Blackjack
- Risk of Ruin in blackjack
- Total Dependent vs. Composition Dependent Basic
- Expected Returns with Infinite Decks
- Dealer Odds in Blackjack under U.S. Rules
- Dealer Odds in Blackjack under European Rules
- Effect of Card Removal in Blackjack
- Blackjack Expected Values
- Estimating Number of Decks in Online Blackjack
- Composition-Dependent Strategy for Single Deck and Dealer Stands on Soft 17
- Composition-Dependent Strategy for Single Deck and Dealer Hits on Soft 17
- Composition-Dependent Strategy for Double Deck and Dealer Stands on Soft 17
Written by: Michael Shackleford
