How Many Blackjack Hands Are Dealt Per Hour

Riva

For example, if you play with two other players, you can expect to be dealt roughly 100 rounds per hour. If, instead, you play two hands, you’ll get about 80 rounds dealt to you per hour, or a total of 160 hands per hour (that’s 60 more hands per hour). Is playing more hands per hour good or bad?

How Many Blackjack Hands Are Dealt Per Hour
I help run a charity gaming event. Real money. Low stakes. All volunteer dealers in blackjack. 20 tables which are always full w/7 players per table.
Basically, a $2-$10 game. Dealers use an 8-deck shoe. When done, we simply bring them a new, pre-shuffled shoe and take out the old shoe. This saves table down time by more than 25%. No insurance bets (I don't know why). Here's the big one...HOUSE TAKES TIES!
Two questions....
1. On average, based on what I just described, approximately how many hands should be played per-hour? This assumes a moderately skilled dealer.
2. By taking ties, approximately how much does that increase the house edge?
As always, thanks.
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Two questions....
1. On average, based on what I just described, approximately how many hands should be played per-hour? This assumes a moderately skilled dealer.
2. By taking ties, approximately how much does that increase the house edge?
As always, thanks.

  1. (From the casino’s perspective, time is money, and when their dealers are manually shuffling multi-decks of cards, the number of hands dealt per hour decreases compared to when the cards are shuffled by an automatic shuffler.) The odds against the player in blackjack do not change when an automatic shuffler is used to shuffle the multi-decks.
  2. The following tables show the number of hands/tosses per hour in blackjack, craps, and roulette. The source of the tables is Casino Operations Management by Jim Kilby. Hands per Hour in Blackjack. Players: Hands per hour: 1: 209: 2: 139: 3: 105: 4: 84: 5: 70: 6: 60: 7: 52: Rolls per Hour in Craps.
  3. Let’s assume you are dealt 100 hands per hour, so over the course of two hours you played 200 hands of blackjack. Getting a blackjack once every 21 hands means that you should theoretically have gotten about 10 blackjacks. Sometimes you’ll get more blackjacks in two hours of play, sometimes less, but on average you’ll get 10.
  4. This means the shoe will be dealt deeper by the time you have to play your last hand of the shoe. In the six-player game, we can expect 38 cards to be dealt after two rounds (2.7 cards per average blackjack hand, times 7.1 average hands/round, times two rounds).

My answers, could be wrong (my errors, not people I'm quoting)
1. With no down time for shuffle, a moderate dealer should be able to deal a full table at 70-80 hph. (anecdotal from a distributor conversation)How many blackjack hands are dealt per hours
2. Per the Wiz, house takes ties for all hands increases house edge by 8.86%. See this link, last line of the table.
If the House lost every hand, they wouldn't deal the game.
1BB

I help run a charity gaming event. Real money. Low stakes. All volunteer dealers in blackjack. 20 tables which are always full w/7 players per table.
Basically, a $2-$10 game. Dealers use an 8-deck shoe. When done, we simply bring them a new, pre-shuffled shoe and take out the old shoe. This saves table down time by more than 25%. No insurance bets (I don't know why). Here's the big one...HOUSE TAKES TIES!
Two questions....
1. On average, based on what I just described, approximately how many hands should be played per-hour? This assumes a moderately skilled dealer.
2. By taking ties, approximately how much does that increase the house edge?
As always, thanks.


Great question, Riva! Hands per hour can be dealer dependent as some are faster and more dexterous than others. Other factors are number of players at the table, side bets, players' decision times etc. I regularly play over 200 hands per hour one on one.
Wong did some studies on this subject using Atlantic City six deck games. Here's what is in Professional Blackjack:
How1 player: 248 hands per hour
2 players: 158
3 players: 116Many
4 players: 91

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5 players: 76
6 players: 64

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7 players: 56

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