Suggested Breakdown for Hosting BlackJack? (1 Viewer)

[justsomedude]

A good friend's sister is hosting a party for her brother's (my friend's) birthday, and she has asked me to provide supplies for BlackJack. She has a BJ topper, but wants me to bring the chips. I'm assuming $1 minimum bets. She didn't mention a maximum, but my guess is no one will be betting over $25 on the high end.

Any suggestions on a BJ table breakdown? And yes, I do have a 300 or so snappers available.

Also - any suggested rules for bets/payouts to keep things simple?

 

[pokerplayingpisces]

Get a topless dealer!

 

[dmalhi1]

@allforcharity

 

[Frogzilla]

Casinos I’ve been to are usually barrels of 60 and the workhorse chips they do 4 of these (2 on each side), 240 total.

Probably important: what fits in the topper tray?

 

[justsomedude]

Probably important: what fits in the topper tray?

I need to check...

 

[justsomedude]

I think this is the topper she has, which would put 8 barrels accessible to the dealer position...

 

[CellarDoor85]

Yeah! - Black Jack, my topic

Minum Bet: 2
Maximum Bet: 100

So you need Chips in in the following denominations:
1 (10 per Player)
2 (40 pP)
10 (30 pP)
20 (10 pP)
100 (10 pP)

Important: Only even bets are allowed, because of the odd pay offs (Black Jack, Insurance, Surrender)
Thats the reason for the unusal denominations.

 

[justsomedude]

Yeah! - Black Jack, my topic

Minum Bet: 2
Maximum Bet: 100

So you need Chips in in the following denominations:
1 (10 per Player)
2 (40 pP)
10 (30 pP)
20 (10 pP)
100 (10 pP)

I'm not sure I follow... in your breakdown are those $ value chips, cents, other?

Important: Only even bets are allowed, because of the odd pay offs (Black Jack, Insurance, Surrender)

I have snappers tho... how would that change the breakdown?

 

[T_Chan]

I usually give players $5k starting stacks per buy in and play minimum $25 bets.

 

[CellarDoor85]

In my opinion, for a home Casino you only need Chips with numbers on it
20 Points / Fake Dollar / Play Money / Happy tokens for each guest and then the party can start.

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A Black Jack pays 3 to 2, that means:
Bet: 1, pay off: 1 (rounded down)
Bet: 2, pay off: 3
Bet: 3, pay off: 4 (rounded down)
etc.

Insurance and surrender is allways the half of your original bet, thats why you need a even number and the 1s only for odd pay offs.

I know that this untypical for non-european eyes, but this is proven the smartest way to play.

 

[Kyle]

You may need two of those as they are small. I have one if needed or you can use one of your poker tables for more room.

 

[Undream]

I mean, you've got the snappers...use them. Make the chips face value/real money and just do $1 min / $25 max..

I dealt 7 or 8 handed for 2 hours for $1 min $15 max, and was perfectly fine with 150 5's, 150 1's. I did end up wishing I had some more 5's on me that night, as I found that almost immediately all the players were reaching for 5's after betting a few hands at $1 or 2.

Just let people know they can only bet round dollars and when/if they collect 2 snappers, they should trade in for 1's or 5's; if someone insists on using a snapper to bet, only pay out $6 on a blackjack. Doing this, I doubt you would need more than a barrel of snappers (2 per player)

Insurance would be the only problematic thing, and rarely do people place that bet. If they ever did, work with your snappers to make things right (might need a chip or two off their stack to make things right)

My suggestion?

120 x 1's
20 x 2.50's
220 x 5's
40 x 25's
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400 total (4 racks)

 

[allforcharity]

I wouldn't use $1s. Use $5 minimum and multiples of. Snappers only get used when paying out blackjack at 3:2. Give enough chips for people to have some fun without getting ridiculous, maybe a barrel of 5s and 8x 25s for 300 per person. (In my pretend games, I give $20,000 in chips with a minimum $1,000 bet so people feel like high rollers).

 

[Alex Lundstrum]

Ex-Blackjack dealer here.
When paying blackjacks, break oddsized stacks into easier stacks and pay each separately. No need to do mental math to calculate the payment if you just set the bet up first to make it easy.

If a lone $2.50 is used as part of a bet that gets blackjack, pay that and odd $1 chips per this scale:
$1.00:$1.50 (pay $2.50 and reclaim $1)
$2.50:$4.00
$3.50:$5.50 (pay $8 and reclaim $2.50)
$4.50:$7.00
$5.50:$8.50 (pay $11 and reclaim $2.50)
$6.50:$10

Insurance can get confusing with snappers. Personally I'd not play with insurance, but ymmv.

For chips, I'd have $5 min bet. Then you should have:
$1 x 60
$2.50 x 40
$5 x 200
$25 x 100

 

[CellarDoor85]

Sorry for the stupid question from an non-native english speaker...
...but what exactly is a "snapper"?

Definitely not a vocabulary that I learned at school

 

[CellarDoor85]

My suggestion?

120 x 1's
20 x 2.50's
220 x 5's
40 x 25's
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I would agree, in case you only have the standard 1-5-25-100 denominations.

Black Jack is a good example, that the 1-5-25-100s are perfect for Poker and Craps but insufficient for any other table game.
I work as Dealer as well, and I love my 2s and 10s

And Sorry, but the 2.50s are the most stupid denomination ever created

 

[Alex Lundstrum]

Sorry for the stupid question from an non-native english speaker...
...but what exactly is a "snapper"?

Definitely not a vocabulary that I learned at school

Sorry, snapper = $2.50 chip

 

[Alex Lundstrum]

Sorry, but the 2.50s are the most stupid denomination ever created

I would agree except that the first casino I dealt at didn't have them and instead paid blackjack with dollar chips and actual quarters. After that, I welcomed the snapper with open arms lol. Also, getting tipped 50¢ at a time always seemed lackluster lol

 

[nitzilla]

Get a topless dealer!

Well, she does have a "BJ topper"............