Buster Blackjack

Buster Blackjack
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Mega Blackjack is a blackjack variant that has special pay tables for the Buster Blackjack bet, as shown below. Note that for pay table 3 the dealer must bust with four or more cards for the side bet to win. Buster Blackjack Version 3 Version 2 of Buster Blackjack has a pay table that pays for any busted dealer hand of three or more cards. In this post, I discussed card counting the Buster Blackjack (BBJ) side bet in the six-deck case. The player wins the BBJ side bet if the dealer busts. The payout is based on the number of cards in the dealer’s busted hand, with a top payout for an 8+ card dealer busted hand. There are at least eight different pay tables offered with BBJ. Buster Blackjack is an RNG based game designed and run by Playtech, one of the industry’s most respected and prolific game developers. It is your standard game of blackjack with a side bet bolted on, which pays out different amounts when the dealer goes bust depending on how many cards it took to get them there. Buster Blackjack is an optional side bet that allows players to win odds when the dealer busts. The odds-based payouts are determined by the number of cards in the dealer’s busted hand. The higher amount of cards in the dealer’s busted hand, the higher the payout for the Buster bet.

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Wizard
Administrator
Buster Blackjack is a side bet if the dealer busts. The win depends on the number of cards required. I think this side bet has been around for a while. I thought I wrote up a page on it, but couldn't find it, so just created a new Buster Blackjack page.
Please click on the link and let me know what you think. As always, I welcome all questions, comments, and especially corrections.
The question for the poll is would you play Buster Blackjack, assuming you were playing blackkjack in the first place?
It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet.
Wizardofnothing
Mike you were quite comical with the options toniggt
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Acender
With a high enough count, could the buster bet become lucrative?
Ibeatyouraces

With a high enough count, could the buster bet become lucrative?


https://apheat.net/2013/04/25/card-counting-the-buster-blackjack-side-bet-6-decks/
DUHHIIIIIIIII HEARD THAT!
Wizard
Administrator

Mike you were quite comical with the options toniggt

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Thanks. To be honest, I'm starting to run low on ideas.
It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet.
charliepatrick
I'm depressed - the house edge is fairly high so surely it should be rated as in the 'best avoided' category.
Acender

/2013/04/25/card-counting-the-buster-blackjack-side-bet-6-decks/


That's actually quite reasonable. Not a bad SB at all.
Quote: charliepatrick

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I'm depressed - the house edge is fairly high so surely it should be rated as in the 'best avoided' category.


Take some happy pills and make some buster bets. The future is a bright one!
Paradigm
With almost 92% of wins paying 2-1, this bet requires red action to have any juice for the player. Works well and gets action in So Cal market where it is difficult to play anything less than $15 min BJ. $15-$25 main bet with a $5-$10 Buster bet seems to work.
A $5 main with a $1 Buster bet that is going to pay you $2 when the dealer busts...not so exciting for me, but AGS is placing it aggressively these days. It will be interesting to see how sticky it is outside of its So Cal original market.
Joeman
So, I was playing the demo and was dealt a BJ. Since I had the Buster bet up, dealer finished out his hand, eventually drawing to a 21. It pushed my main BJ bet! I assume this is a glitch in the app, and not an actual rule of the bet?

Buster Blackjack Rules


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gordonm888
First, if the players all bust then usually the dealer does not hit his hand to determine whether hhands of <17 would ahve gone bust. - do you lose the Buster BJ side-bet in this situation? Or does the dealer hits his cards anyway if he has less than a 17 in order to determine the outcome of the sidebet? If the dealer does not always play out his hand, the House Edge on the sidebet should be calculated assuming that the dealer does not play the hand when all players go bust -and thus the calculated side-bet should be a function of the number of players at the table.

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I am very confused by this site:

https://apheat.net/2013/04/25/card-counting-the-buster-blackjack-side-bet-6-decks/


6 Deck Blackjack Practice

The House edge is quoted to be different than what the Wizard just calculated for what appears to be the same assumptions on BJ rules. In this site's quoted simulation of 100M hands on a six-deck game with a card count of the A,2,3 cards, I don't understand if the dealer is assumed to play out his <17 hands when the player goes bust.
So many better men, a few of them friends, are dead. And a thousand thousand slimy things live on, and so do I.

Wizard Of Odds Buster Blackjack

I noticed one of the local Indian shops was doing a 'Buster Blackjack' side bet. Optional side bet, if the dealer busts, you get paid. If it takes the dealer a lot of hands to bust, you get paid more. Max side bet is equal to main BJ bet.
When googling for it, I turned up this page in South Dakota:
http://legis.state.sd.us/rules/DisplayRule.aspx?Rule=20:18:15:30.07 (Archive copy)
I don't remember, but I think the pays table I saw was the H3 paytable.
a) Idea on house edge?
b) Idea of it's exploitable? I was thinking maybe it would be better in a negative count situation?