Multiplay Blackjack Live (Authentic Gaming): What You Need to Know

It’s not as though players don’t have plenty of choices when it comes to blackjack. New, high-quality options are dropping all the time, often offering special bonuses, fresh features, or other similarly elements meant to draw gamblers’ attention.

How is a player to decide where to give their business?

There’s no one right answer, but in our humble opinion, the best do the basics better. The games that offer the strongest fundamentals usually make for the best investments of time AND hard-earned money. Shiny bells and whistles are all well and good, but only if elements like base play, RTP, and such go off without a hitch.

Well, to speak plainly, this game delivers those basics about as well as any we’ve seen. Ever.

Base game play is simple and incredibly smooth, with a visual design that is both elegant and understated. Generally, the standard player-friendly rules are offered, from 3:2 blackjack payouts to dealers standing on soft 17.

The dealers are clearly very well trained, doing an admirable job of engaging players under the somewhat challenging situation of Common Draw rules, where an unlimited number of players can be active at the same time, all being dealt the same cards but making independent decisions.

And of course, the game streams live in HD for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with an unlimited number of seats available.

From where we’re sitting, it looks to us like Authentic has hit a Grand Slam in their first at-bat of producing games outside the realm of their usual roulette wheelhouse. Strong work!

It’s all well and good to announce a tremendous 99.5% RTP for a slot. But as any remotely experienced gambler can tell you, that number doesn’t mean anything unless the game is played the right way.

That’s actually more true than it usually is in this particular title. With so many side bets available, it may seem borderline negligent not to take advantage of them, at least a little bit.

Of course, the opposite is the case!

When side bets are given such a prominent place, it is more essential than every to stick to the abc’s of blackjack strategy. The main bets will always, always, always provide the best value over the long haul!

Is the 2000:1 payout for the Buster Blackjack Side Bet appealing? You bet it is! But why do you think it pays 2000:1? Do you have any idea how rare an event has to be for a casino to offer 2000:1 odds and still come out ahead?

Get your basic strategy chart, and stick to it, and you can enjoy some of the most player-friendly terms available for any player in any game, full stop. Diverge from it more than the slightest bit, and you might as well hand the dealer your chips directly.

With that said, if you absolutely feel you must play the side bets, not all of them present equally bad terms.

Perfect Pairs presents the best odds among the side bets, with Lucky Lucky and Lucky Ladies not too far behind. The others are only slightly better than taking out your bankroll in cash and lighting it on fire.

As always, unless you’re an experienced card counter with years of experience under your belt, avoid insurance like the plague.

There’s one other potential drawback present here: the betting range.

Sure, high rollers will be delighted by the max bet of $5,000 per hand – if you’ve got a bankroll like that, this is a great place to use it!

If, however, you’re still building your bankroll or playing within a set of means (like perhaps 99% of all who gamble), the $1 minimum bet may price you out. $1 per hand can get very expensive very quickly, and gamblers who can’t afford to drop a few hundred bucks as they endure the slings and arrows of the game might find they’re more comfortable playing a title with slightly less favorable odds, but a lower minimum bet.