Single Deck Blackjack Strategy Chart

The single-deck chart

No surrender cells appear because this game doesn't offer it. If your single-deck table does allow DAS or surrender, flip those rules in the interactive chart and the grid regenerates.

What changes vs the 6-deck chart

Coming from the standard shoe chart (6 decks, H17, DAS, late surrender), these are the 19 cells that play differently at this table — computed by diffing the two charts in the engine, with the rule that drives each change. Fewer decks make doubling stronger (each card you remove swings the composition more), while the no-DAS and no-surrender rules pull some splits and surrenders back to hits — and the pack is small enough to produce the famous single-deck oddity: stand on 7,7 against a ten, because two of the sevens you'd need are already in your hand.

The 6:5 trap

Most single-deck tables on the floor today pay blackjack 6:5 instead of 3:2 — and that one line of felt costs more than every other rule combined. This exact game at 6:5 carries a +1.73% house edge, worse than almost any 3:2 shoe game. The single-deck advantage is real only at 3:2; if the sign says 6:5, walk to the shoe game. Price any table's full rule set with the house edge calculator.

Single-deck questions

Drill it at a real pitch table

The trainer deals this exact game — one deck, H17, no DAS — and grades every decision against this chart. Use “Practice these rules” above to load the table and play.