 Microgaming casinos offer Multi Hand progressive Blackjack version that is played with
five standard decks of 52 playing cards that are
shuffled before each hand / game.
In Multi-hand Blackjack, you can only bet five hand at a time.
The goal of blackjack is to beat the Dealer's hand by either getting a higher hand, without exceeding 21, or by the Dealer's
hand going bust.
How to play Multi Hand Blackjack
All face cards (Kings, Queens
and Jacks) have a value of ten (10) and the Aces can have a value of one or
eleven. Blackjack is when your hand contains an Ace and a card with a
value of 10. Please refer to our basic blackjack rules to learn more about the game
terms and rules.
Rules in Brief:
- Five card decks
- Dealer stands on soft 17
- No doubling after splitting
- You may only double on 9 to 11
- No re-splitting
- Player may draw to split Aces
- No surrender is allowed
- Player loses total amout bet against dealer's Blackjack (Full no peek)
- Bet five hand at a time
Multi Hand Blackjack Strategy Card
Insurance is not recommended in Multi Hand Blackjack game.
Under the rules Insurance is not resolved until the end of a hand. The house edge for
multihand blackjack is about 0.57%. Follow the
strategy shown below to have the best odds playing this blackjack game.
The strategy is created through intensive computer simulations which perform a complete combinatorial analysis
of thousands of hands for each Blackjack situation possible.
Basic strategy is printed as table with the dealer's up card
the first row and player's two card combination the first column. The entries in the table tell you
what to do (Hit, Stand, Double Down or Split) with the different combinations of dealer's and player's hands.
Optimal Multi-Hand Blackjack strategy tables for Microgaming online casinos' rules are shown above for hard totals,
soft totals, and pairs along with a legend.
Today most of the Microgaming powered online casinos offers about 10 different variations of Blackjack games including:
Vegas Downtown, Vegas Strip,
Atlantic City Blackjack,
European,
Spanish, Multi-Hand,
Double Exposure BJ, Gold Series variations and
Triple 7's progressive blackjack (follow left bar menu links to find rules and strategies for corresponding game versions).
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