Blackjack Rules

You might think that Blackjack is easy. And relatively speaking, it is. After all, you know the goal - the total of your hand must be higher than the Dealer s without going over 21. Piece of cake, right? Well, what about pair splitting or doubling down? Although there are several variations and strategies…

Rules and how to play Blackjack: (See Other for Spanish 21) The basics The object of the blackjack game is to accumulate cards with point totals as close to 21 without going over 21. Face cards (Jacks, Queens and Kings) are worth 10 points. Aces are worth 1 or 11, whichever is preferable. Other cards…

It can be incredibly frustrating. Everything you’ve read says that blackjack is the casino game with the best odds, and that by playing optimal basic strategy you’ll do no worse than break even – and often will come out a winner. It doesn’t always work that way, does it? Blackjack is enormously enjoyable…

While advantage play is important for becoming a blackjack pro, the first step is learning basic blackjack strategy. We’ve come up with a list of easy-to-learn rules. This website runs a lot of articles written for intermediate to proficient blackjack players. Mostly for guys who already know how to…

When you first start playing blackjack you will likely be introduced to basic strategy fairly early in the process. People talk about it all the time. Basic strategy is simply a calculation of the best possible play that you can make in every situation. Obviously learning this will go a long way towards…

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Fewer Decks are Better. Do You Know Why? When it comes to the number of decks in a blackjack game, the fewer the better. Most players have heard this fact somewhere along the line, but many of them don’t know why fewer is better. I often get this question by email, where players will note that the proportion…

Once you’ve familiarized yourself with some of the key cards to look for, set aside an afternoon or a couple evenings where you can really dive into your collection. If you have thousands of cards, you are not going to want to price them all out, you just want to look for some of the better cards and…

To use the basic strategy, look up your hand along the left vertical edge and the dealer s up card along the top. In both cases an A stands for ace. From top to bottom are the hard totals, soft totals, and splittable hands. There are two charts depending on whether the dealer hits or stands on soft 17…

One of the original blackjack side bets is the Insurance wager. This side bet pays 2-to-1 whenever the dealer’s hole card is a ten-valued card, otherwise it loses. This side bet is clearly countable by keeping track of the number of ten-valued cards relative to non-ten-valued cards. The only reason it…

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If you learn nothing else, at least learn how to play blackjack according to basic strategy . Basic strategy tells you the best mathematical way to play any hand you’re dealt. This takes the guesswork out of whether you should hit, stand, double, split or surrender. Using basic strategy will typically…