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Strategy guide

Basic strategy for this exact table: 6-deck shoe, dealer stands on soft 17, double after split allowed, no surrender, blackjack pays 3:2. Change any one of those rules and a handful of cells in these charts would change with it.

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Step 1
Bet
Choose your bet before any cards come out.
Step 2
Deal
You get two cards face up; the dealer gets one up, one hidden.
Step 3
Your turn
Hit, stand, double, or split — as many times as the hand allows.
Step 4
Dealer plays, then pays
Hits to 17+, stands on soft 17. Closest to 21 without busting wins.

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Hard totals

No ace, or an ace that can only count as 1 without busting. Find your total on the left, the dealer's upcard along the top.

Hard 9 through 11 are the classic doubling range — you're betting that one more card gets you to a strong total while the dealer still has to draw at least once more.

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Soft totals

A hand with an ace counting as 11 — written as "A,6" for ace-six, worth 7 or 17. Soft hands can't bust on the next card, which is exactly why so many of them double.

Soft 18 (A,7) is the one hand on this whole chart that changes the most between rule sets — under dealer-stands-on-soft-17, it stands against a 2; under dealer-hits-soft-17, it would double instead.

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Pairs

Your first two cards match. Splitting turns them into two separate hands, each with its own bet — and since double after split is allowed here, either half can double too.

9,9 is the famous trap: split against 2–6, 8, and 9, but stand against 7, 10, or an ace — an 18 is already good enough there, and splitting risks turning one likely win into two coinflips. 5,5 and 10,10 are never split — they're better played as a hard 10 (double it) and a hard 20 (stand) instead.

No surrender at this table, so it isn't in these charts. At tables that do offer it, a few hands change again — hard 16 against a dealer 9, 10, or ace, and hard 15 against a dealer 10, are the textbook spots where giving up half your bet beats playing the hand out.