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[–] Jxnfpm 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

The dealer does not win ties. All pushes result in you keeping you original bet. BJ is in the dealer's favor because you go first. If you bust, you lose your bet. If everyone busts, the dealer doesn't even bother drawing cards.

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[–] probablysarcastic 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Depends on the casino. In some of them the house wins a push.

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[–] Jxnfpm 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I think you are mistaken. There may be a casino out there somewhere that actually has this rule, but no casino in Vegas has that rule. I have played Blackjack on cruise boats, in Las Vegas, in New Zealand, in the Philippines, in Malaysia, in Tinian and in multiple American-Indian casinos. I have never seen or heard of losing on pushes in Blackjack.

When you see a "blackjack game" where you lose pushes, you're talking about a variant like Blackjack Switch, Free Bet Blackjack, etc. Australian Blackjack, California Blackjack, Panama Blackjack, etc. are not Blackjack, they are blackjack variants, just like Pontoon, Spanish 21, etc. Many of those variants will cause the house to win pushes, but that is to account for other variations in the rules that would otherwise shift the odds out of the house's favor.

OP was asking about Blackjack. The house does not win pushes in Blackjack, and yet the odds are in the house's favor (without card counting) in Blackjack despite the player keeping their original bet on pushes.