European Basic Strategy

• Six decks (4 or more deck players can accurately use this chart).
• Dealer stands on soft 17.
• Doubling allowed only on hard totals of 9-11.
• Doubling after a split is allowed.
• No-peek (player loses total bet, including after doubling or splitting, if dealer has blackjack)

The house edge under this rules is about 0.62%.



European Blackjack
Your Hand	Dealer's Up Card
	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	A
5 to 8	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
9	H	D	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
10	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
11	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
12	H	H	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
13	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
14	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
15	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
16	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
17 to 21	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Soft	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	A
13 to 17	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
18	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H
19 to 21	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Pairs	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	A
2,2	P	P	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H
3,3	P	P	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H
4,4	H	H	H	P	P	H	H	H	H	H
5,5	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
6,6	P	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H	H
7,7	P	P	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H
8,8	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	H	H
9,9	P	P	P	P	P	S	P	P	S	S
10,10	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
A,A	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	H
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H	Hit	More Strategy Tables
S	Stand	Single Deck, Hit soft 17
D	Double if allowed, else Hit	Single Deck, Stand soft 17
Ds	Double if allowed, else Stand	Two Decks, Hit soft 17
P	Split	Two Decks, Stand soft 17
S/H	Split if Double after split, else Hit	Multi-Deck, Hit soft 17
D/D	Split if Double after split, else Double	Multi-Deck, Stand soft 17
Sr/H	Surrender if allowed, else Hit	U.K. Blackjack
Sr/S	Surrender if allowed, else Stand	European Blackjack
Sr/P	Surrender if allowed, else Split