Blackjack Side Bets

Blackjack Side bets are on every live Blackjack table we can find online. But not all players are familiar with these types of bets and some just avoid playing them for that reason.

On this article we are going to look at all the Blackjack Side Bets we can find online. We are also going to look at the different payouts and odds.

First of all let’s answer the main question that many players have:

Here are some popular Blackjack Tables with Side Bets

Types of Blackjack Side Bets

While land based casinos have a great range of side bets, this is not the case with live blackjack. In this article we are looking mainly at the blackjack side bets that we can find in live dealer blackjack tables. This includes games from all the big software providers like Evolution Gaming and Playtech that are available in all the popular online casinos like William Hill Casino.

These most popular blackjack side bets are:

• 21+3
• Perfect Pairs/Any Pair
• Bet Behind
• Insurance
• Hot 3
• Bust it

Let’s have a look at each one of them in more detail.

21+3

The 21+3 side bet is one of the most popular side bets in blackjack. This blackjack side bet  is based on the first two cards the player is  dealt and the dealer’s face card.

So its a combination of the players cards and the dealer cards.

If the combination of these cards is a straight, a flush, a straight flush, a three of a kind or Suited Trips then the players wins. All winning hands pay odds of 9 to 1 regardless of the ranking of the winning hand.

Perfect Pairs Blackjack Side Bet

Perfect Pairs also known as PP is a very simple blackjack side bet. A Perfect Pairs side bet wins if the first two cards dealt to a the player are a pair.

This can be mixed pair i.e. a diamond and a club card, a colored pair i.e. a diamond and a heart card, or perfect pairs i.e. a pair of 2 diamonds.

Different pairs pay different odds. Perfect Pair pay out odds are 30 to 1 – Colored Pair pays 10 to 1 – Mixed Pair pays 5 to 1.

Any Pair

This is the same type of side bet as Perfect Pair with difference on the payout. Any Pair pays out 25 to 1 for a Suited Pair and 8/1 for Mixed Pair.

Hot 3

Hot 3 is a new live blackjack side bet that we can find on Infinite Blackjack and Free Blackjack tables. The side bet is a based on the totals or combination of the players first 2 cards and the dealers face up card.

Player wins with a total of 19 and above with side bet blackjack payout odds starting from 1 to 1 for total of 19 and go all the way to 100 to 1 for a 7-7-7 combination.

Bust It

Bust It is another new blackjack side bet that we can find in live dealer casinos. You are betting on the dealer going bust. The payout depends on the number of cards before the dealer goes bust.

If they bust with just 3 cards the payout is Evens and the more cards it takes the higher the payout up to 250 to 1 for 8 + cards.

Now let’s have a look some side bets that are classed as side bets but don’t are really a bet on the main hand.

Bet Behind

This is a classed as a blackjack side bet but it doesn’t really follow the same principles of a side bet because its not an additional bet to your main hand. Bet Behind is actually a bet on another players hand.

It can be placed by a any player on the table or by a player that is waiting for seat. The tricky bit here is that you have not say on how they will play the hand.

This is why players should monitor the player strategy before you decide to back their hand.

Insurance

Insurance is a side bet designed to protect players from a dealer blackjack. This side bet is only available if the dealer’s up-card is an ace. Similarly to Bet Behind this is bet is part of your main hand bet and not an additional independent bet.

The idea behind placing an insurance wager is to give players a better chance of receiving a payout even if they dont win the hand as it is designed to reduce the house edge under certain circumstances.

The bet required is half the initial stake and Insurance side bets pay 2:1 if the dealer gets a blackjack. However, if the dealer doesn’t get a blackjack and you dont win the hand you end up loosing your initial stake + half of the initial stake which is the insurance.

So if we take into consideration odds and payouts the general advise is to not take insurance.

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