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Fire Blackjack Side Bet

Introduction

Fire Blackjack Side Bet

After going 13 years without seeing the Streak bet I suddenly saw it, under another name, at the Palms casino in Managua, Nicaragua, on April 29, 2013. There it is called the Fuego bet, which means fire. They use a different pay table, as shown in the following pay table. For splitting, they use the first hand played out for purposes of the Streak bet. Otherwise, the rules are a little different, but still use six decks and the dealer stands on a soft 17. To simplify the analysis, I'm going to assume the same 47.51% of a net win as I do under the Atlantic City rules.

Fire Bet

Streak
Bet
Pays Probability
Win
Return
3 8 0.107240 -0.034844
4 16 0.050950 -0.133858
5 35 0.024206 -0.128580