Oktoberfest Blackjack — Bavaria's Biggest Festival, Dealt Straight to Your Table

How it works

Three rounds between you and the felt.

No costumes required. Sign up, fund your table, and the festival bonus is dealt automatically on your first hand.

Open a table account

Register with our featured partner room in under two minutes — name, email, and a valid ID to confirm you're 18 or older.

Make your first deposit

Fund your account with any supported method. Your deposit is matched up to €500 for the Oktoberfest edition, automatically.

Take your seat

Choose a classic shoe or the live Oktoberfest table, where every natural blackjack triggers a stein-clink bonus round.

The tables

Pick your pace, keep the payout.

Every variant below runs on the same fair-shuffle engine. The Oktoberfest table just adds a seasonal side bet on top of standard rules.

Table	Decks	Payout	What makes it different
Oktoberfest Live	6 decks	3:2	Live dealer in festival dress; a natural 21 pays an extra stein-side bet if placed.
European Blackjack	2 decks	3:2	Dealer stands on all 17s, no hole card until you act — a purist's table.
Speed 21	4 decks	3:2	Faster rounds, doubled hands allowed on any two or three cards.
Free Practice Table	6 decks	—	No real money — learn basic strategy before you sit at a paid table.

Basic strategy

Play the odds, not the feeling.

Basic strategy is the mathematically correct play for every hand, worked out from millions of simulated rounds. It won't guarantee a win, but it lowers the house edge to under 1% on most tables — far better than playing by instinct.

+1Low cards

2 through 6 add one to the count. More of these left in the shoe favors the dealer, so a low count means fewer of them remain.

0Neutral cards

7, 8 and 9 don't move the count. They're common enough not to sway the shoe either way.

− 1High cards

10s, face cards and aces subtract one. More of these left in the shoe favors the player — bigger blackjack payouts, better doubles.

This is the Hi-Lo system, the most widely taught way to track a shoe: keep a running total as cards are dealt, then divide by the decks remaining to get a “true count.” A higher true count means the deck favors the player. Counting is legal — it's just arithmetic — but it only works on a physical shoe that isn't reshuffled every hand. Online RNG and most live-dealer tables shuffle continuously, which is why basic strategy below is the more useful tool for online play.

Basic strategy decision tables

Find your hand on the left, the dealer's up card along the top, and the box tells you the correct play. Rules assumed: 4–8 decks, dealer stands on soft 17, double after split allowed, no surrender.

HHit SStand DDouble if allowed, otherwise hit DsDouble if allowed, otherwise stand PSplit

Hard totals

Your hand	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	A
8 or less	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
9	H	D	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
10	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
11	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H
12	H	H	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
13	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
14	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
15	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
16	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
17+	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S

Soft totals (hand includes an ace counted as 11)

Your hand	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	A
A,2	H	H	H	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
A,3	H	H	H	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
A,4	H	H	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
A,5	H	H	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
A,6	H	D	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
A,7	S	Ds	Ds	Ds	Ds	S	S	H	H	H
A,8	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
A,9	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S

Pairs

Your hand	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	A
2,2	P	P	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H
3,3	P	P	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H
4,4	H	H	H	P	P	H	H	H	H	H
5,5	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
6,6	P	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H	H
7,7	P	P	P	P	P	P	H	H	H	H
8,8	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
9,9	P	P	P	P	P	S	P	P	S	S
10,10	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
A,A	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P

Bavaria's biggest festival, dealt straight to your table.