Players should be aware of this decreased payout as it increases the casino’s advantage over the player substantially. Some casinos have started to reduce this payout from 3 to 2 to 6 to 5. Where the player has Blackjack and the dealer does not the player automatically wins the hand and will receive a payout of 3 to 2.

Where the dealer holds a Blackjack they automatically beat all player hands other than a player Blackjack which results in a push (returning of the initial wager). Where the first two cards dealt to either the player or the dealer is an Ace and any of the ten valued cards, this is referred to as Blackjack. Initially each player will receive 2 cards and the dealer with receive one face up card a second face down card (though depending on the version, this card may not be drawn until after the players have completed their actions, this is typical of European games). When playing offline it’s very unusual to see a game use more than 8 decks of cards due to the inconvenience of shuffling so many cards but online games have taken to using far larger numbers of decks with a simulated shuffle after every round of play.Ī blackjack table can generally seat up to seven players at any one time and the player to the dealer’s left will always be the first to act with play progressing in a clockwise direction from there. Each card has the point value (sometimes referred to as ‘rank’) displayed on the card other than the face cards (Jack, Queen and King) which are valued at 10 and the Ace which can be valued at either 1 or 11 depending on which is more beneficial to the player.

The game is played with one or more decks of 52 cards (no Joker cards are included). One of the best known and most popular casino backed card games in the world, Blackjack sees the player compete against the casino, not the other players at the table, with the objective to get a higher hand total than the dealer without exceeding 21.

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