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title: "Rules Desk"
url: https://miucasino.com/rules-desk/
description: "Short entries stating one published rule convention each, with the arithmetic that follows from it."
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# Rules Desk

Section

Short entries stating one published rule convention each, with the arithmetic that follows from it.

Rule entry

## [Dealer stands on soft seventeen](https://miucasino.com/rules-desk/dealer-stands-on-soft-seventeen/)

A single line on the felt, and one of the larger arithmetic differences between two otherwise identical blackjack tables.

A soft hand is one containing an ace counted as eleven. A soft seventeen is therefore an ace with a six, or an ace with cards totalling six, and it cannot be broken by drawing one more card.

Rule entry

## [House edge is arithmetic, not luck](https://miucasino.com/rules-desk/house-edge-is-arithmetic-not-luck/)

The edge on a wheel is a property of the gap between the number of pockets and the payout offered on hitting one.

House edge is not a force acting on a session and it is not a description of how a night went. It is a subtraction, and it can be carried out in a line.

Standing entries

## Conventions in brief

- BlackjackThe felt states whether the dealer stands or draws on a soft seventeen; the two are different games.
- RouletteA single-zero ring holds thirty-seven pockets and a double-zero ring holds thirty-eight, at the same payout.
- BaccaratBanker wins carry a stated commission, printed with the rest of the table terms.
- BlackjackSurrender, where a table offers it at all, returns half a wager against the dealer’s up card.
- Reel gamesA paytable states combinations and multipliers; the reel strips that set their frequency are not published.
- CrapsThe puck records the round: dark face up for a come-out roll, light face up on an established point.