Tips for RTG Pontoon Casino Blackjack

If you are new to blackjack, pontoon is a variant of the game whereby the dealer’s pocket cards-both of them- are just dealt face down. Definitely this puts whichever player in a disadvantageous position tremendously. To counter this, he or she is provided with several benefits. RTG, an acronym for Realtime Gaming is a software provider offering Pontoon in its online casinos.

The benefits mentioned above are:

* The pay being 2 to 1
* Other than a pontoon, a five card hand which is yet to bust ranks higher than all. It pays 2 to 1
* At any point of the game, the player is allowed to double, even if it’s after taking other additional cards. Moreover, the player can, after a double, hit as many number of times as possible.

However to cut back some of these gains, here are other rules to make it more competitive:

* Dealer wins ties
* Dealer will hit on a soft seventeen
* Player will hit on a sum of 14 or less
* Player is allowed to split only twice

Based on optimum play, the house edge of this game is 0.38%. Other blackjack variants have the same and so players should go for it.

Computer simulation determines Pontoon optimum strategy just like a regular game of 21. The major difference is that in Pontoon it is not possible for the player’s hand value to be indexed against the face up card of the dealer. This is of course based on the nature of the game-where the dealer’s card is face down. Indexing in Pontoon is done against the number of cards which have been dealt to a player. The critical thing here is the payout of a 5-card legitimate hand.

A player is not allowed to have in hand fewer than 2 cards. New players should keep their strategy card before them when in the process of wagering online on this game.