[Pontoon Strategy Battle] BS vs Coward vs Mimcry

[Pontoon Strategy Battle] BS vs Coward vs Mimcry

  12:06    Japanese Nokkie

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Is BS the best strategy of the three?

This article is NOT about Blackjack, BUT about Pontoon (Spanish 21).

The opponents against BS are as follows:

One is Coward Strategy.
1  Stand on hand 12 or more regardless of Dealer's face-up card.
2  Never double down nor split a pair.

The other is Mimicry Strategy.(Dealer's Strategy)
1  Always stand on hard 17 or more.
2  Always hit hard 16 or less.


I conducted a Pontoon experiment to calculate the winning percentages of each strategy.

The following video consists of the 20 games.
The playback time is about 10 min.
(I shortened a few minutes by editing the original video.)

After recording the video, I collected more 80 data, and then got 100 data in all.

The following graphs show the results based on the 100 data.

In this strategy, we can avoid defeats by busted hands.

For example, occasionally win at hand 14 against Dealer's 9.

When we feel the dealer is so strong, some of us might imitate his strategy.

However, the winning rate is not good as we expect.

That's why the player loses by his busted hands before the dealer's turn.

At that time, even though the dealer busts his hand, the player is not a winner.

Unlike the BS of Blackjack, the Pontoon BS is quite complicated.
For example, the player must hit hand 13 against Dealer's 5.
During this experiment, the player got 5-card-21 only once.
This is a merit by hitting.

The results except for a tie are as follows:

Winning Rate

Coward 42%    Mimicry 42%    BS 43%

The chip's fluctuation (Bet amount: 2 chips every time)

Coward -26 chips    Mimicry -23 chips    BS -23 chips

To sum up, we cannot decide which strategy is the best based on just the results.

That's all.

Hope this article will be useful.

Thanks for reading.

Have a nice day.

Bye.