Incredible Blackjack Hand Last Saturday night I played at Bally's in Atlantic City and got a hand I could not believe. Dealer had 9 and I was dealt 2 8s. I split the 8s and was given a third card. It was an 8 so I split them again. The next card I was dealt was a fourth 8. This has happened to me three other times in my life, so no big deal. The fifth card was again an 8 and the sixth consecutive 8 followed. No one at the table or the dealer or even the pit boss had ever seen that before. I do not even know how to start calculating what the odds are in getting 6 straight cards of the same denomination from an 8 deck shoe, which holds 416 cards. Can you help me?

I was in s black jack game at Harrah's Cherokee in February
I received a pair of 5s against a dealer's 6. I split and got 2 more 5s. Now ihad 4 hands and a pair of 5s on each. One hit on each hand resulted in 4 more 5s. I had doubled down on all 4 so i could only get 1 card. The dealer turned up a hard 16 and the next card out of the shoe was another 5 for s 21. I lost only 400.00 but, i think the electronic card shuffling can align cards to the casino advantage as the odds of 13 5s consecutively have to be astronomical. A true story witnessed by 4 players the dealer and the pit boss. Can someone calculate the odds?
