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Optimal Blackjack player strategy
Betfair Zero Lounge Blackjack has a house edge of 0 because
it pays out 2 - 1 for a suited natural Blackjack and a five card 21.

In this case, an optimal strategy is essential.

The strategy below has the advantage of being simple to learn
and apply, but still being effective enough to give you the edge.

New to Blackjack? See the video tutorial at the foot of this page.



Basic rules


Aces should be treated as 1, except with 7, 8, and 9 when they equal 11.

eg
 

A, 6 is always 7.
A, 8 is always 19


Points total is the total of all cards in your hand, not just the first 2, so the same rules apply to

7 and 6,
5, 4 and 4
A
, 4 and 8

all of which should be treated as 13.
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Hit, Stand, Split or Double Down?
Points Total
Action
3 to 11

12 to 16

17 to 20


Exception: A, 7

9

10

11



ALL PAIRS
except 4s, 5s and 10s

PAIR 4s

PAIR 5s

PAIR 10s


Exception: PAIR 2s, 3s, 6s, 7s
HIT

HIT
if dealer > 6, otherwise STAND

STAND

HIT
if dealer > 8, otherwise STAND

DOUBLE DOWN
if dealer < 7

DOUBLE DOWN if dealer < 10

DOUBLE DOWN



SPLIT

HIT

HIT
if dealer has 10 or A, else DOUBLE DOWN

STAND

SPLIT
if dealer < 8 otherwise HIT
The system to beat Zero Lounge Blackjack


Playing Zero Lounge Blackjack with the above strategy will reduce the House Edge to around 0.6 per cent. If you're lucky enough to get either a suited Blackjack or 5 card twenty one, the edge is reduced to zero.

Our advice? Practice this strategy on Betfair's Zero Lounge Blackjack 'Play for fun' mode until it becomes second nature, then play it for real and wait to hit one of those two winning hands.

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