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Mon Sep 01 2003 - Casino Games - Best Casino Games
The Rules of Blackjack
The Blackjack game originated in France approximately 300 years ago and has since then become the most popular casino game worldwide. A player can master the basic rules quickly and fairly easily. The objective in blackjack is to have a hand which totals 21, or beats the dealer’s hand by coming as close to 21 as possible without going over, or ‘busting’. If your first two cards are an ace and a ten (or picture card), that’s blackjack or ‘a natural’ 21. Blackjack always beats a hand that totals 21 by adding the values of more than the first two cards.
A picture card is counted as 10, a card from 2-10 is counted at its face value, and an ace can be counted as either 1 or 11. A ‘hard hand’ is a hand that does not contain an ace or contains an ace that can only be counted as 1 so as not to bust.
In our Blackjack game you are competing either against a dealer (the house) as the Player or you can play the role of the Dealer and play against a Player. Our game is unique in that you choose to play against other live players as Player or as Dealer. In BeTheDealer Casino every game is naturally a Multi-player game since players play against each other. We feature private as well as public tables. On a public table there are up to two players simultaneously, one playing as the ‘Player’ and another playing as the ‘Dealer’. In the private tables players play against an automated System dealer.
There are six decks and the rules are: Dealer hits soft 17, up to 3 splits allowed (when splitting Aces the player receives only one additional card for each hand, and if the additional card is a face card the hand is not considered as Blackjack), doubling down after split is not allowed, double down on any first two cards, no surrender option.
Our Blackjack game has a dealer and one player (as described above). The dealer deals from a shoe containing six decks of playing cards. Before the cards are dealt, the players place their bets by clicking on either the $1 chip, $5 chip, $25 chip or the $100 chip to reach the desired bet.
Once the cards are dealt the bets may not be changed. Buttons located on the lower right side of the screen will appear in order to facilitate betting. The minimum and maximum initial bets can be seen prior to entering the blackjack table.
Each player receives two cards face up and the dealer receives one card face up and one card face down (the ‘hole card’). The player may request as many cards until he/she busts. If a player is dealt a Blackjack, which is a 10 or face card along with an Ace, he/she immediately gets paid 1.5 times the placed bet unless the dealer also has Blackjack in which case it is a ‘push’ (you neither win nor lose your bet).
After all the player’s bets are completed, the dealer turns over his/her hole card and plays according to the rules of the game. If the dealer has sixteen or less, he/she must draw a card (hit), until he/she reaches seventeen or more. If the dealer’s cards total exceeds 21 (bust), he/she must pay all players who are still in the game.
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