Gambling Terms In Spanish

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Introduction

Spanish 21 is a variation of blackjack, that in some cases is the best bet in the casino. In locations where the dealer stands on a soft 17, or redoubling is allowed, Spanish 21 may be a better bet than blackjack, depending on the specific blackjack rules. If you are looking for a change of pace from traditional blackjack but insist on a game with a low house edge, then you may find new excitement in Spanish 21.

In Australia and Malaysia, Spanish 21 is called Pontoon. There are some rule changes in Australia, which merit a separate page. For all the details please visit my page on Australian Pontoon. To make matters more confusing, there is another similar game, but different enough to warrant a separate page, called Player's Edge 21.

Following is a list of known aliases of the game:

• Betsoft, a major provider of software for Internet casinos, offers Spanish 21 under the name Pirate 21.
• The Casino Bregenz in Austria changes the name to Blackjack Exchange.

The Rules

Spanish 21 uses six or eight Spanish decks, each deck consisting of 48 cards — the regular 52 cards less the four tens. Any card counter can tell you that removing any 10-point card from the cards moves the odds in favor of the dealer. To make up for this, Spanish 21 gives the player a host of bonuses and favorable rules. There are lots of Spanish 21 games all over the country, so rules will vary somewhat from place to place, but the usual rules in the player's favor are:

1. Late surrender allowed.
2. Double after split allowed.
3. Re-splitting aces allowed.
4. A player 21 always wins.
5. Player blackjack beats dealer blackjack.
6. Player may double on any number of cards.
7. Player may usually hit and double down after splitting aces.
8. Player may surrender after doubling, known as 'double down rescue.' The player forfeits an amount equal to his original bet.
9. A five-card 21 pays 3 to 2, a six-card 21 pays 2 to 1, a seven or more card 21 pays 3 to 1. Bonus not honored after doubling.
10. A 6-7-8 or 7-7-7 of mixed suits pays 3 to 2, of the same suit pays 2 to 1, and of spades pays 3 to 1. These bonuses do not pay after doubling.
11. Suited 7-7-7 when the dealer has a seven face up pays $1000 for bets of $5-$24 and $5000 'Super Bonus' for bets of $25 or over. In addition, all other players receive a $50 'envy bonus.' This bonus does not pay after doubling or splitting.

Variable Rules

1. Dealer may hit or stand on a soft 17.
2. 6 or 8 Spanish decks can be used.
3. Some casinos allow redoubling, up to three times.
4. I have heard of some casinos not allowing surrender or drawing to split aces, but it isn't the norm.
5. A face card and ace after splitting has been known to count as a blackjack, at at least one casino.
6. There has been a lot of debate through the years whether the bonuses are payable after a split. First, there is almost no argument that they do not pay after doubling. However, the way the game was designed, all bonuses except the Super Bonus are supposed to be payable after splitting. However, most casinos do not pay the bonuses after a split. The effect of not allowing the bonuses after splitting is very small, around 0.01%.

Strategy

Following is my Spanish 21 basic strategy when the dealer hits a soft 17.

Next is the Spanish 21 basic strategy when the dealer stands on a soft 17.

Note: If drawing to split aces is not allowed, and the dealer stands on soft 17 (as is the case at the Mohegan Sun), then hit A,A vs A.

The next table if for when the dealer hits a soft 17, redoubling is allowed, and the player has not already doubled.

The next table if for when the dealer hits a soft 17, redoubling is allowed, and the player has already doubled, which limits his options to stand, surrender, and double again.

Many readers have expressed doubt about my advice to hit 17 against an ace with 3 or more cards. However, I stand by what I said. The player will save about 2.8% of the initial wager by hitting as opposed to standing. The dealers will advise against this play and the other players may curse the day you were born, but trust me, the odds favor hitting.

Following is the house edge under various common rules, before considering the Super Bonus.

• Dealer stands on soft 17: 0.40%
• Dealer hits on soft 17, redoubling allowed: 0.42%
• Dealer hits on soft 17, redoubling not allowed: 0.76%

Super Bonus

The probability of hitting the Super Bonus is 1 in 668,382, with six decks, and 1 in 549,188 with eight decks. The reduction in the house edge depends on the bet amount, and to a lesser extent, the number of players. With no other players, and bets of exactly $5 or $25, the Super Bonus lowers the house edge by 0.030% in a six-deck game, and 0.036% in an eight-deck game. At a bet of exactly $5, the Envy Bonus lowers the house edge by an additional 0.0015% in a six-deck game, and 0.0018% in an eight-deck game, per additional player.

For bet amounts other than those indicated above, the benefit of the Super Bonus will go down as the bet amount goes up.

No Draw to Split Aces: At the Mohegan Sun drawing to split aces is NOT allowed. The effect of this rule is to increase the house edge by 0.29%.

Ace and 10 after splitting aces pays 3 to 2: I have an unconfirmed report that at at one time the Meskaki casino in central Iowa paid 3 to 2 on an ace and 10 after splitting aces. I have another unconfirmed report that as of Aug. 2010 they removed the Spanish 21 table completely. According to my calculations this lowers the house edge by 0.16%. Otherwise they hit a soft 17 and no redoubling, for an overall house edge of 0.60%.

Doubling only allowed on first two cards: I had a false report that a casino in Malaysia didn't allow doubling on any number of cards. If such a rule did exist, it would increase the house edge by 0.16%.

Match the Dealer

Match the Dealer is a side bet found in both blackjack and Spanish 21. The player wins for each of his initial two cards that match the dealer's up card. Matches in rank only pay less than a match in rank and suit. The following tables show the various pay tables that I am aware of for Spanish 21.

Match the Dealer — Six Decks

Event	Combinations	Probability	Pays	Return
Two suited matches	10	0.000244	18	0.004386
One hard and one each match	90	0.002193	13	0.028508
Two non-suited matches	153	0.003728	8	0.029824
One suited match	1320	0.032163	9	0.289467
One non-suited match	4752	0.115787	4	0.463147
No matches	34716	0.845886	-1	-0.845886
Total	41041	1	0	-0.030555

Match the Dealer — Eight Decks

Event	Combinations	Probability	Pays	Return
Two suited matches	21	0.000287	24	0.00689
One hard and one each match	168	0.002297	15	0.034448
Two non-suited matches	276	0.003773	6	0.022637
One suited match	2464	0.033683	12	0.404194
One non-suited match	8448	0.115484	3	0.346452
No matches	61776	0.844477	-1	-0.844477
Total	73153	1	0	-0.029855

C4

The Casino Bregenz in Austria offers Spanish 21 but calls it Blackjack Exchange. They tack on a side bet called the C4, which is analyzed below. The table is based on six decks and assumes that if the player qualifies for more than one win, he only gets the higher win. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 14.48%.

C4 — Six Decks

Event	Combinations	Probability	Pays	Return
Four of a kind	500	138,138	0.000337	0.168467
Straight	20	3,649,536	0.008902	0.178032
Flush	12	5,647,896	0.013776	0.165310
Two pair	10	5,941,728	0.014492	0.144925
Three of a kind	8	7,330,752	0.017880	0.143044
All other	-1	387,278,420	0.944613	-0.944613
Total	409,986,470	1.000000	-0.144836

Following is the house edge of the C4 for other numbers of decks.

• Four decks: 18.49%
• Eight decks: 12.41%

Methodology

Gaming Terms In Spanish

The Spanish 21 strategy found here is based on a combinatorial program which considered both card composition and the six deck nature of the game. In addition an infinite deck model was created in Excel, of which the basic strategy nearly agreed with that of the combinatorial model. The basic strategy found here does not agree with that of the late Lenny Frome in some borderline situations. Frome's strategy can be found in such books as 'Secrets of the New Casino Games' (Marten Jensen) and 'Armada Strategies for Spanish 21' (Frank Scoblete). Although I have a great deal of respect for Frome and his body of work, I strongly feel that his basic strategy is incorrect. I speculate he did notincorporate the double down surrender feature correctly into his analysis. My strategies also agree with those of Katarina Walker, who has done an amazing job analyzing Spanish 21 and its cousin, Australian Pontoon, as well as an independent analysis by Mike Hopson.

Acknowledgments

I would like to give a huge thanks to Katarina Walker for correcting some minor strategy errors in this page. She is the author of The Pro's Guide to Spanish 21 and Australian Pontoon.

Links

German translation of this page.

Written by:Michael Shackleford

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AFK: Away From Keyboard.

Alpha: (General software term) First phase of testing software. The structure and most of the content has been developed but not all the intended features may be present. Alpha tests are typically run in-house or by specialist testing agencies.

Avatar: The game character’s model or picture used to represent each player.

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Bug: Faults in the programming which cause unintended effects both good and bad – crashes, unintentionally high character advancement, etc.

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Camp: To remain in one strategic place and repeatedly kill people or mobs.

Crash: When your console/computer stops responding until you hit the power button, or reboots itself without asking. Game servers also crash. Very distressing, especially if they lose your last few hours worth of items and xp.

DS: Short for Nintendo Dual Screen or Nintendo DS. A handheld gaming console with two screens that was released in Europe in October 2005.

DDR:Dance Dance Revolution. A series of games produced by Konami. They are played by hitting buttons on a dancemat instead of using traditional controller.

E3: Electronic Entertainment Expo. A former expo for games and technology developers and publishers to show their upcoming developments. Now replaced by E for All and other games conventions.

Exp: See XP.

Expansion Pack: Lots of additional content for a game that is created by the developer and often costs almost as much as the original game did in the first place.

FFI (FFII, FFIII … FFX, FFX-2, Final Fantasy): Successive games in the Final Fantasy series of console games, later ported to PC by Square Co. Historically, the plots of each successive game were unrelated to the previous games, with the exception of the eleventh game in the series. This followed on from the tenth game Final Fantasy X (i.e. Ten), which led to it being called Final Fantasy X- 2 (pronounced Ecks-Two) rather than XI. To confuse matters even more, Final Fantasy XI is an MMO with the style and features of the console games and Final Fantasy XII will be a return to the stand-alone console platform. Lastly, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is an English language full-length animated feature film created by a collaboration between the creators of the Final Fantasy games and Chris Lee Productions, a US film producer, and Final Fantasy: Advent Children is a Japanese language Square Enix film released on UMD which is a sequel to Final Fantasy VII. The relationship between Square, Square Inc. and Square Enix is here.

Firmware: The in-built programs on hardware (DVD drives, PSPs) that operating systems use to talk to the hardware.

Frag: Kill. Can be used as a verb or noun, e.g. “I just fragged him” or “First team to 20 frags”.

FPS: (1) First person shooter (game genre).

FPS: (2) Frames-per-second, a measure of system performance.

Gank: To be ganked is to have your character killed by unfairly overwhelming odds – e.g. six vs one with all players at the same level or one-on-one but one player is twenty levels above the other.

GBA: GameBoy Advance – a series of hand-held consoles made by Nintendo.

GDC:Game Developers Conference.

Gib: To reduce someone/thing to meaty chunks. Taken from the word ‘giblet’. Also can refer to the resulting chunks.

Gold, Gone gold: (General software term) The final version of software has been sent to the manufacturers for printing and publishing, which usually means it will be released soon. All future updates will be made though patches.

GTA, GTA:VC and GTA:SA : Grand Theft Auto, GTA:Vice City and GTA:San Andreas (link). A series of 18-rated (Adults only) games wherein the protagonist steals cars, does gangster missions, picks up prostitutes, shoots policeman and private citizens and is an all-round unredeemable bad egg.

Grind: Performing mindlessly repetitive tasks in order to level up or proceed in the game – most often seen in MMORPGs where you frequently have to kill massive numbers of unchallenging creatures around your level to gain the necessary experience to level up, or to get a specific prestigious item.

GRAW: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. A tactical shooter.

HL/HL2:Half-Life/Half-Life 2. Valve Software’s ridiculously popular series of first person shooters.

Homebrew: Applications written by unpaid, unlicenced coders to run on games machines like the PSP – could be an emulator, a homemade games, a web-browser, etc.

HP: Hit points. The number of points of damage that your character can take before dying. Commonly used in RPGs.

HUD: Heads-up display. Easy-reference display that shows the most essential information (health, current weapon, radar, etc) on the screen without blocking your view.

IGN: Uh… IGN.com. Big gaming website.

Lag: Time delay between sending a command to the game and your character actually performing the action. Frequently cursed when the time delay is longer than expected.

Lagger: Someone with a slow connection, or who is late to react.

Leeroy: Long story. See Urban Dictionary and LeeroyJenkins.net.

Leet, 1337: Elite. See Wikipedia’s Leet page for more info.

LFG/LFP: Looking for group/party/person

LFM: Looking for members (i.e. already in a group, need more players)

Mana, MP: Mana or Magic Points. Spells often have an MP cost with higher spells costing more points. Commonly used in RPGs.

MMO, MMORPG: Massively Multiplayer Online, – Role Playing Game. Games where many players log in to a persistent game world and play the game together. Unintended side effects which may affect a few rare souls are socialising, developing unhealthy obsessions with “just one more level” and potentially falling in love with an online partner. Caution advised if you have an addictive personality but most people are perfectly safe.

Mob: NPC monsters or opponents.

Mod: (1) Files created for a game to add functionality of change the behaviour of a game, written by people who don’t work for the game developer. Official developer-released modifications are called patches. E.g. In the released version of Doom 3 the player could either hold a torch or a weapon, but not both at once. The “Duct Tape” mod for Doom 3 overrode the release version of the game to allow the player to see by their torchlight while holding the shotgun or machine gun.

Mod: (2) Moderator. Someone who oversees forums or game channels. Duties include deleting undesirable posts and reprimanding troublesome users.

Noob: Newbie, new person, inexperienced person (often derogatory).

NPC: Non-player characters. AI-controlled people wandering around in the background or story characters that you can talk to.

Owned: Beaten by quite a large margin. Owned has a snappier ring to it, doesn’t it?

Patch: (General software term) Files distributed by the developer after a product is released that will change the software when they are installed. These are usually used to fix bugs and security issues but can be used to add functionality.

PC: Player Character, as opposed to NPC. Also Personal Computer. Depends on the context.

PK, PKing: Player-killing. Usually used in the context of MMOs, where killing other players is not necessarily the object of the game.

Platform: Console type required to play the game. e.g. PS3, Xbox, 360, PC, DS, Wii.

Platform game: A design of game where the main character walks up and down a fixed platform, commonly contacting things as they pass – there no directional options beyond backwards and forwards. e.g. Most Mario games.

PSP: PlayStation Portable. A handheld gaming console from Sony.

Pwned: Owned. One of those strange internet variations that start at typos and become words unto themselves. Follow the link under Leet for more info.

RL: Real life. The scary stuff outside gaming. IRL is also commonly used – In Real Life.

RPG: Role-playing game (genre), e.g. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

RTS: Real-time strategy (genre), e.g. LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth.

Shard: (Relates to MMORPGs) Server-clusters running isolated copies of the game. The game world is the same on each shard but player accounts on one shard can only meet up with player accounts on the same shard. Find out what shard your mates are using before you create your account, if you’re planning on playing with/against them.

Sim: Short for simulation. Also refers to any character in The Sims franchise.

SP: (1) Gameboy SP. Another handheld console made by Nintendo.

SP: (2) Single player.

Spawn: The act of a character popping into existence in the game world.

Spawn point: A position at which several characters will pop into existence.

Spawn camp: To sit within range of a spawn point and kill characters as they appear, often before the newly-spawned players have a chance to get their bearings. Very heavily frowned-upon in most circles.

Strafe: Move sideways. This is often used as an evasive manoeuvre while shooting.

Tank: Character who can take a lot of damage. Often the tank will be a melée warrior and charge out in front of the team, distracting the opponents from weaker characters.

TBS: Turn-Based Strategy (genre), e.g. Sid Meier’s Civilisation series.

Teabagging: A nasty practice where a player will crouch over a just-killed player’s body, appearing to dangle his private regions in the face of the dead player. A rather tasteless form of victory celebration.

TPS: Third-person shooter (genre) e.g. Gears of War.

Wi-Fi: A catchy name for the 802.11 set of wireless connection standards. Technically, it’s not short for Wireless Fidelity, as fidelity has nothing to do with it. Full story is here.

WoW: World of Warcraft. A hugely popular MMORPG.

WTS/WTB: Want to sell/Want to buy. Commonly heard in the general areas of MMOs

XP: Experience Points. Most commonly used in RPGs where characters must gather a certain level of XP to progress to the next level.

Zerg: Using large numbers of smaller/weaker resources to achieve a task typically achieved by fewer larger resources. To over-power someone with sheer numbers, rather than strength.

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