Live Blackjack

Every player is at the same table and is dealt the same hand. Bets are open for 15 seconds; then two cards go to the hand and two to the dealer, one of them face down.

Nobody deals: "live" is the table. Each round has its own six-deck shoe, shuffled from a seed whose hash is shown before a bet is taken.

You play the hand for yourself, a turn at a time: hit, stand, or on the first two cards double. A turn is 9 seconds; if you do not answer, you stand. An answer cannot be changed.

If you stand, you keep the cards the hand had when you stood. The hand goes on for the players who hit, so the table may show more cards than you hold.

A double is a second stake the size of your first: you take exactly one more card and stand.

The dealer stands on every 17 and checks for blackjack on an ace or a ten: a dealer blackjack ends the round before anyone plays. Blackjack pays 3:2 and pushes against a dealer blackjack.

No split, no insurance and no surrender: the hand is everyone's, so it cannot be divided. That is why this table returns about half a percent less than the one you play alone.