Understanding Playtech Double Attack Blackjack

Added: February 26, 2016

If you are looking for something different, more exciting and more challenging in the category of online blackjack games, you should seriously look at Double Attack Blackjack. You will find this blackjack variant at Playtech powered Australian online casinos like Omni Casino and Mansion Casino. The essence of Double Attack Blackjack is that you can increase your wager after seeing the dealer’s face up card.

Double Attack Blackjack is different in another significant way as well. It is played with eight Spanish decks. A Spanish deck has all four tens removed and consists only of 48 cards. As in other online blackjack variants, you first place the ante wager. Then only the dealer’s face up card is dealt. You then have to decide whether or not you want to go for the Double Attack bet. This bet can be less than the ante bet, but cannot exceed it. Once you indicate your decision, your initial two cards will be dealt face up and the dealer’s second card will be dealt face down. The dealer will check for blackjack, if required. Then the game will proceed normally.

As a result of this benefit that you are given, there are some changes made to the other rules. Split hands require an additional wager equal to the ante and the Double Attack bets. However, in double down you have the choice of doubling only the ante bet or both the ante and the Double Attack bet. The Insurance option payout in Double Attack Blackjack is 5 to 2. The Surrender option can be exercised after any number of hits. The most significant change in the rules is that the natural blackjack payout is only even money instead of the usual 3 to 2. The optimum strategy for the Double Attack bet is simple. You place the maximum possible Double Attach bet for all dealer cards, except ace, nine and ten. In those events you proceed without the Double Attack bet.

Double Attack Blackjack also offers an optional side bet called Bust It. This bet must be placed in the beginning with the ante bet. If the dealer busts with exactly three cards then the Bust It bet wins. The payout is described in a payout table. It begins with a payout of 3 to 1 if the dealer busts with a face card. The payout goes to 200 to 1 if the dealers busts with three eights of the same suit. The Bust It bet has an absurdly high house edge and must not be wagered.