Free Blackjack
Real casino tables, each with its price on show, played for chips that are worth nothing, with the strategy chart checking every decision you make.
Play chips
1,000
No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.
6-deck shoe · 312 left
Place a bet and deal.
Session coach
Last round
Nothing played yet. After each of your hands the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.
Decide the cost before you start
Gambling is entertainment with a price, like a concert ticket. The useful question is not how much you might win but how much the evening is allowed to cost. Pick that number first, and treat reaching it as the end of the session. You can set one below and the coach will hold you to it.
Next bet
25 chips at a 0.41% house edge: an expected cost of 0.1 chips.
- Hands played
- 0
- Chips bet in total
- 0
- Bets raised after a loss
- 0
Where the result came from
- House edge, on average
- 0
- Decisions on strategy
- None yet
- Your off-strategy plays
- 0
- Luck
- 0
- Result
- 0
The report fills in as you play. Open the full strategy chart
Set a session limit
Your leaks
None recorded. A spot you play off the best strategy is listed here so you can practise it, and drops off once you get it right three times running. The list is kept in this browser only.
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Table rules
6 decks, dealer stands on soft 17, blackjack pays 3 to 2, double after split. The benchmark. Every other table here is priced against this one.
The rules printed on the felt are the price of the game. House edge is what chart play loses on average, as a share of each opening bet. You can change tables between hands, and a new table always starts a fresh shoe.
Strategy coach
Every decision you make is checked against the basic strategy chart for this exact table. The cards decide whether a hand wins. The chart is the part you control.
This session
- Hands played
- 0
- Decisions on the chart
- None yet
- Net chips
- 0
- Expected with chart play
- 0
Expected is what perfect chart play loses on average over the 0 chips you have bet, each bet priced at the house edge of the table it was made at (0.41% at this one). A short session can land a long way from it in either direction.
Count the shoe
Every card turned face up counts: +1 for a 2 to 6, 0 for a 7 to 9, −1 for a ten, a face card or an ace. The table keeps the count and does not show it. Turning this on or off starts a fresh shoe.
Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections
- House edge at the standard table, played by the chart
- 0.41%
- The same perfect play at the table that pays 6 to 5
- 1.46%
- Tables, each with its own chart and its own price
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- Percentage points one point of true count is worth
- 0.56
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A table that teaches the decisions
Most free blackjack games teach you the buttons. This one teaches the decisions.
Each time you hit, stand, double or split, the coach compares your play with basic strategy for the table you are sitting at and tells you what the chart does with that hand, so the feedback arrives while the cards are still in front of you.
- Dealer
Hard 16 against a 10
Hit
- Dealer
A pair of 8s against a king
Split
- Dealer
Soft 18 against a 9
Hit
- Dealer
Hard 11 against a 6
Double
The coach reads the same chart on every decision you make at the table above.
It is deliberately honest about what practice buys.
Playing the chart perfectly does not beat the game. At the standard table it brings the house edge down to about 0.41% of each opening bet, and the rules printed on the felt decide the rest: sit at the single deck table that pays 6 to 5 and the same perfect play costs 1.46%. The session panel shows what that edge would be expected to cost over the chips you have bet, next to what actually happened, so you can see how far a short run of hands drifts from the average.
- Standard0.41%
- Dealer hits soft 170.63%
+0.22 percentage points on top of the standard table
- No double after split0.55%
+0.14 percentage points on top of the standard table
- Single deck, 6 to 51.46%
+1.05 percentage points on top of the standard table
House edge when every decision matches the chart, as a share of each opening bet.
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Rules at this table
Standard table
- Shoe
- 6 decks
- Dealer
- Stands on soft 17
- Blackjack pays
- 3 to 2
- After a split
- Double allowed
House edge
0.41%
The benchmark the other three are priced against
Dealer hits soft 17 table
- Shoe
- 6 decks
- Dealer
- Hits soft 17
- Blackjack pays
- 3 to 2
- After a split
- Double allowed
House edge
0.63%
+0.22 percentage points more than standard
No double after split table
- Shoe
- 6 decks
- Dealer
- Stands on soft 17
- Blackjack pays
- 3 to 2
- After a split
- No double
House edge
0.55%
+0.14 percentage points more than standard
Single deck, 6 to 5 table
- Shoe
- Single deck
- Dealer
- Hits soft 17
- Blackjack pays
- 6 to 5
- After a split
- Double allowed
House edge
1.46%
+1.05 percentage points more than standard
- A six-deck shoe is reshuffled when about 78 cards are left, the single deck when 26 are.
- The dealer checks for blackjack under an ace or a ten before you act.
- Double down on any first two cards.
- Split any pair, or any two ten-value cards, up to 4 hands.
- Split aces get one card each and cannot be split again.
- Insurance is offered against an ace and pays 2 to 1.
- No surrender.
Bets run from 5 to 500 chips. Tables change between hands, and a new table starts a fresh shoe.
- H
- Hit
- S
- Stand
- D
- Double
- P
- Split
- Enter
- Deal
FAQ
- Is this blackjack game played for real money?
- No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
- What does the strategy coach check?
- Every hit, stand, double, split and insurance decision is compared with the basic strategy chart for the table you picked. Each table has its own chart, derived for its exact rules, so a play that is right at one table can be wrong at another. The coach tells you what the chart plays and whether you matched it. It grades the decision, not the outcome: a correct play can still lose the hand.
- Is a single deck game that pays 6 to 5 a better game?
- No. One deck sounds like the better game, and paid at 3 to 2 it would be: 0.34 percentage points better than the standard table, even with the dealer hitting soft 17. Paying 6 to 5 on a blackjack takes 1.39 points back, 4.1 times what the single deck gave. The house edge at that table is 1.46% of each opening bet under perfect chart play, against 0.41% at the standard six-deck table that pays 3 to 2.
- Will practicing here, or counting cards, make me a winning blackjack player?
- No. Basic strategy is the least costly way to play, not a winning one: the house keeps an edge of 0.41% at the standard table and 1.46% at the most expensive one here, even when every decision matches the chart. The counting mode is practice at keeping a Hi-Lo running count. A point of true count is worth about 0.56 percentage points, which is a small shift that needs a large bankroll and many hours of accurate play to matter, and casinos are entitled to refuse service to counters.
How this game works
Each table deals from its own shoe (312 cards for six decks, 52 for the single deck), shuffled in your browser with a Fisher-Yates shuffle so that every ordering is equally likely. Cards are dealt in order and nothing about the deal depends on your bet, your balance or your results. The engine reads the deck count, the soft 17 rule, double after split and the blackjack payout from the table you picked. For the six-deck tables those are the rule sets the blackjack strategy chart is published for, so the game and the chart cannot disagree.
The coach reads the chart for the table in play. A pair that cannot be split is played as its total, and a double that is not available falls back to standing on soft 18 or better and hitting everything else, which is how a printed chart is read at a real table. Every house edge on this page is computed by the strategy engine for that table's rules under its own chart, as a share of the opening bet: 0.41% (standard), 0.63% (dealer hits soft 17), 0.55% (no double after split), 1.46% (single deck, 6 to 5). The single deck chart and edge are derived by the same engine with one deck, the dealer hitting soft 17 and blackjack paying 6 to 5. The expected figure in the session panel is each opening bet multiplied by the edge of the table it was made at, and nothing more.
Counting mode keeps the Hi-Lo running count of every card turned face up since the shuffle (+1 for a 2 to 6, 0 for a 7 to 9, −1 for a ten, a face card or an ace). The dealer's hole card joins the count when it is turned over. You can be asked after every hand or every 3 or 5 hands. The true count is the running count divided by the decks left in the shoe, and its value is the figure the card counting trainer derives from published effect-of-removal tables for a six-deck shoe: about 0.56 percentage points per point when the dealer stands on soft 17 and 0.58 when the dealer hits it. The expectation shown is the table's house edge moved by that amount. It is a linear estimate, and it is why the mode runs at the six-deck tables only.
Limits
- Each chart is a total-dependent basic strategy. It ignores the cards already dealt from the shoe, and the counting mode does not change what the coach grades: it checks your count, not count-based changes to the play.
- The single deck table is priced by the same engine that is checked against published figures at six decks. Its single deck output is derived, not separately verified against a published source.
- Casino rules vary beyond the ones offered here. Surrender, resplitting aces and restricted doubling all move the edge and are not modeled.
- Play chips do not feel like money. Decisions that are easy here are harder with a real stake on the table.
This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. Blackjack played for money has a house edge on every hand, and no amount of practice removes it.
Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.
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Go deeper
- Blackjack strategy chart The full chart for four rule sets, and what each rule costs.
- Card counting trainer Practice keeping a running count against a real shoe.
- Blackjack side bets What 21+3, Perfect Pairs and the rest actually cost.
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