Blackjack odds are percentage figures which represent your probability of losing or winning a hand. They can also represent the house edge or their profit margins as well. Usually probability odds don't mean much on the short term, but they clearly average out in the long term and this is why the casinos always win over the long term. Royal Match is an optional bonus bet for blackjack. Royal Match considers the first two cards the player receives. If they are the same suit, the player wins. Royal Match offers an optional Crown Treasure payout that is based on the player and dealer’s two starting cards being a (suited King and Queen) Royal Match.

• It was very interesting to see that your odds of scoring the royal match are about 3 in 1,000, I asked the pit boss at my casino and he said they didn't have that information, isn't that illegal? Well it looks like the general suit match payout is the all important one.
• Therefore, though the house edge for the regular blackjack game increases as the number of decks increases, your odds in the royal match side bet are the best in an 8-deck game. In Pay Table A, there is a 10.85% house edge with one deck, an 8.32% house edge with 2 decks, a 7.07% house edge with 4 decks, a 6.67% house edge with 6 decks and a 6.
• Many blackjack tables offer a side bet on various outcomes including: Player hand and dealer's up card sum to 19, 20, or 21 ('Lucky Lucky') Player initial hand is a pair ('Perfect pairs') Player initial hand is suited, suited and connected, or a suited K-Q ('Royal match').

Blackjack Royal Match Odds Results

The fact it has a house edge of around 6.5% should be enough reason to avoid it.
You want to consider it as part of the overall blackjack game but its a seperate bet and independant of the blackjack game, and I think its best thought of and treated as such- if you want to risk loosing $6.50 of every $100 spent on that spot you can. The reguler blackjack game is one of if not the most favorable game you can play for the loose house advantage- by playing the bonus you take it from arguabily the best to mediocure at best for vigerish
even with pushes tossed out your going to loose more often then win with basic/perfect non-counting strat-- its more like 45/55 if you dont want to count pushes seperate.

Blackjack Royal Match Odds

I saw some casinos offer this side bet. It pays 3 to 1 for suited hand.
I've never spent my time on studying this. But I think if the penetration is good, it should be very profitable to count it.
Does any one count for this bet before?
Another question, can I bet big amount for side bet? For instance, bet 5 dollars for original blackjack play, and bet 100 for the Royal Match side bet?

I've never seen a casino where your bet on the side bet can exceed your bet on the base hand. It's definitely countable, but you also have a 3.8% house edge to overcome. And only 2 or 3 hands per deck in a single deck game.

Where I work it's only 2.5:1 for a simple match, and I believe you can bet up to $50 regardless of the amount of the contract bet.

Usually it's 2.5:1 on a multi-deck game, and 3:1 in single deck. the royal match is 25:1 in multi-deck and 10:1 in single deck.

I've never seen a casino where your bet on the side bet can exceed your bet on the base hand. It's definitely countable, but you also have a 3.8% house edge to overcome. And only 2 or 3 hands per deck in a single deck game.

While doing my Santa Fe Station review, I somehow was able to convince them to let me play only the sidebet on UTH and not the base game. (I saw another guy doing it). Of course that's what I want to play since it only has a house edge of 1.9% versus the 2.2% of the base game. If I recall I hit a flush and a straight and finished up $5. Only place I've ever been allowed to do that.

I saw some casinos offer this side bet. It pays 3 to 1 for suited hand.
I've never spent my time on studying this. But I think if the penetration is good, it should be very profitable to count it.
Does any one count for this bet before?
Another question, can I bet big amount for side bet? For instance, bet 5 dollars for original blackjack play, and bet 100 for the Royal Match side bet?

I think it depends on the casino. I have seen people regularly put huge sums of money on the side bet at El Cortez while only betting a nominal amount on the main game.
A previous opinion on counting the RM

I've never seen a casino where your bet on the side bet can exceed your bet on the base hand. It's definitely countable, but you also have a 3.8% house edge to overcome. And only 2 or 3 hands per deck in a single deck game.

Most of the Kansas City casinos (save Argosy) allow side bet wagers to be more than the base bet. This is common on the 21+3 side bet, and at Ameristar KC, not only will you see people bet more on the 3-card, they are betting on everybody's hands. When they eliminated the loss limits, for about 3 weeks it was a free-for-all on the chips going around.

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