Blackjack Hands
Blackjack handFor a player who has mastered basic strategy, blackjack tables, under specific conditions, offer an opportunity to compete on a level playing field with the casino. This make 21 as good a betting situation as the informed gambler can find.
For those new to the game, the rules and basixc terms of the game are as follows:
- Your cards add up to points and 21 wins. Whoever comes closest- you or the dealer- to a total of 21 pointswithout going over, wins.
- An ace counts as 1 point or 11 points. Face cards all count as 10 points. All other cards count as marked.
- Hard hand: A hand that does not include an ace. What you see on your two cards is your total count; for example, 9+8= 17.
- Soft hand: A hand that includes an ace in the first two cards dealt. It has two values, depending on whether you count the ace as a 1 or an 11. For instance, a 5 and an ace could be 6 or 16. A 10 turns a soft hand into hard hand.
- Stiff hand: A potential bust hand, such as 13 or 14, but especially a hard 15 or 16, which are the two worst hand you can get (unless the 16 is two 8s, in which case you can and should split them into two hands).
- Split or Splitting Pairs: Splitting a matched pair to play separately. The extra bet is placed on one of the split cards. If a third like card is dealt, that too can be split based on casino rules.
- Splitting Aces: When you split aces, you receive only one additional card for each hand. However, based on casino rules you may split a third ace if dealt.
- Double Down or Doubling Down: Doubling the bet before being dealt one additional card. The blackjack rule for doubleing down is that the player receives only one card after a DD decision. Player may bet up to his or her original bet , but not more, and places this second bet behind the original bet. Some casinos allow doubling down only with a count of 10 or 11.
- Push: When you end up with the same count as the dealer. Same as a tie. No money is exchanged, because you neither win or lose.
- Burn cards: The number of cards the casino discards at the beginning of a new shuffle.
- Multiple decks: Four or more decks played in a game. They are always dealt faceup.
- Single or double decks: One first two cards are delat facedown.
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