Introducing Live Quantum Blackjack Plus

There’s a new random multiplier game now taking bets – Live Quantum Blackjack Plus from Playtech.

It’s not entirely new. Rather a tweaked version of their long running Quantum Blackjack (which is still running by the way).

Players love these multiplied payout games. And providers are keen to meet this love head on with a steady stream of new versions, usually with more multipliers.

We saw Ev0’s new XXXtreme Lightning Roulette released a couple of weeks ago, peppering players with more random multiplies than the original version. So it is with Live Quantum Blackjack Plus.

What is Quantum Blackjack Plus?

Just like it’s original version, Quantum Blackjack Plus takes a regular game of blackjack (dealt in one to many format, 6 deck shoe, via shuffle master), and changes things up a bit with the addition of:

1. Random multipliers:
   Each round, cards are randomly selected and a multiplier is applied to them. If these cards are dealt to the players’ winning hand the payout is supersized accordingly. More on the multipliers below.
2. Dealer 3 card bust rule (as per Quantum Blackjack):
   A 3 card dealer bust leads to a pushed bet (your bet is returned with no win payout). This rule doesn’t apply where the player hand is Blackjack, or contains a multiplier card, or where the dealer bust is with 4 or more cards.

As tends to be the case these days, the provider does a nice job of summarising how the game works on the load graphic.

The multipliers

Side bets are offered (Pairs and 21+3) but it’s only the main game where multipliers come into play.

After bets have closed either 3 cards or 5 cards are randomly selected. In the below game round it was 5 cards selected.

A single multiplier is then randomly selected – either 2.5x, 3x, 5x or 10x. This multiplier is applied to all chosen cards.

Should any of the multiplier cards be dealt to the player hand, this becomes the payout multiple for a win. Multipliers dealt to the dealer are redundant.

So, in the above example, the 9 raises the payout to 2.5x, rather than the regular even money. This becomes a massive €2.50 collect on my €1 Ante.

Multiple multipliers

Where more than 1 multiplier is dealt to the player hand, they sum to arrive at the winning hand payout. The maximum payout for a regular hand win is therefore 50x, or 49:1 (5 multipliers selected, 10x multiplier applied, all 5 cards dealt to player hand).

Comparing the old Quantum Blackjack multipliers

With the original Quantum,

• 1, 2 or 3 multipliers are selected each round,
• 3x, 5x or 10x multipliers are applied individually (not to all)
• multipliers multiply (not add) when more than 1 are in play.

In summary, it had fewer multipliers in play, but scope for bigger payouts.

Quantum Plus Pay-table

Main game payouts are summarised below. A regular winning hand can pay even money up to 50x.

Regular Blackjack pays 3:2. With two 10x multipliers in play this is upsized 20x.

Theoretical Returns

If you stick to the main game, and play optimal basic strategy, your theoretical returns is a healthy 99.57%.

Full house rules

May be read here.

A few hands of Live Quantum Blackjack Plus