Double After Split now Allowed on Pragmatic’s live blackjack tables

Here’s a pleasant message to be greeted with on Pragmatic Play’s live blackjack tables – ‘New, Double Down After Split’.

They’ve tweaked the main game house rules applying across all their blackjack tables to a now allow players to Double Down after Splitting their initial cards.

The rule change applies across all their classic 7 seat tables…

It applies on all Pragmatic’s Speed Blackjack tables.

A summary of the house house rules now applying across their 7 seat blackjack table range is as follows:

• Played with 8 standard 52-card decks.
• Dealer must draw on 16 or less and always stand on 17.
• Double Down permitted on any two initial cards.
• Double Down permitted after a Split, except when splitting Aces (changed June 2025).
• Double Down receives one card only.
• Split any initial cards of equal value.
• Only one Split per hand.
• Split of Aces permitted.
• No Hit on Split Aces.
• Insurance is offered with an open Ace.
• Blackjack pays 3 to 2.
• Insurance pays 2 to 1.

The rule change has also been applied to Pragmatic’s 1-to-many deal table – ONE Blackjack. The complete ruleset on this table is now as above, with the addition of 6 Card Charlie applying (drawing 6 cards without busting beats all Dealer hands except Blackjack).

Increased return to player

The beauty of this little rule change is that it increases the return to player (RTP) rate applying for optimal play on these tables.

Play basic strategy on these tables and the applicable RTP is now:

• 99.41% on all the 7 seat blackjack tables (99.29% before the rule change),
• 99.59% on the ONE Blackjack table (99.45% before the rule change).

This now puts ONE Blackjack at the top of the theoretical returns table for all live blackjack tables. It actually puts it at the top of the table for any live dealer game, full stop.