{"id":130,"date":"2026-07-30T19:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestcasinosonline.org\/?rtg_games=suit-em-up"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:05:23","slug":"suit-em-up","status":"publish","type":"rtg_games","link":"https:\/\/bestcasinosonline.org\/?rtg_games=suit-em-up","title":{"rendered":"Suit Em Up Blackjack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suit Em Up is a blackjack variant in which the optional side wager pays when the player&#8217;s first two cards share a suit, with escalating awards based on the rank combination. The base game plays to standard rules with a return near 99.4 percent under basic strategy, which again makes it one of the strongest return propositions RTG offers.<\/p>\n<h2>Side Bet Paytable Structure<\/h2>\n<p>The side wager scales with hand quality: a suited pair of aces sits at the top of the ladder, typically paying 60:1, followed by suited pairs, suited blackjacks and lower suited combinations down to a small award for any two suited cards. Structuring the paytable this way spreads probability across many small outcomes and one very rare large one.<\/p>\n<p>Because a suited pair of aces requires two specific cards from the same suit, the top award has extremely low probability, and its contribution to overall side-bet return is small despite the eye-catching multiplier. Most of the side bet&#8217;s return is delivered by the frequent, low-paying suited combinations at the bottom of the ladder.<\/p>\n<h2>Deck Count and Combined Edge<\/h2>\n<p>Deck count directly affects suited-pair probability. Fewer decks make suited combinations relatively more likely, so the same paytable produces a lower house edge in a single-deck or double-deck game than in a six-deck or eight-deck shoe. Any published side-bet edge figure is therefore only meaningful alongside the shoe configuration.<\/p>\n<p>Combining the wagers is where players lose ground. A base hand carrying roughly a half-percent edge paired with a side bet carrying several percent produces a blended cost far above the headline blackjack figure. Players who select this table for its base game return should recognise that adding the side bet undoes most of the advantage that made the table attractive in the first place. Keeping the side wager small relative to the main hand limits the damage, but declining it entirely is the only choice that preserves the full base game figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suit Em Up is a blackjack variant in which the optional side wager pays when the player&#8217;s first two cards share a suit, with escalating awards based on the rank combination. The base game plays to standard rules with a return near 99.4 percent under basic strategy, which again makes it one of the strongest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"us_state":[],"class_list":["post-130","rtg_games","type-rtg_games","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestcasinosonline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/rtg_games\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestcasinosonline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/rtg_games"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestcasinosonline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/rtg_games"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestcasinosonline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"us_state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestcasinosonline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fus_state&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}