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Winning Blackjack – Part 2


The Basics Of Blackjack

Blackjack is one of the most popular card games played today. Probably one of the simplest games to understand, but like many things can take a long time to master.

The following is a small excerpt from ‘How To Make Extra Money Playing Blackjack’. This is a step by step guide to understanding and playing blackjack to win.

Blackjack is played at a table with up to seven circles or squares for players bets, a shoe (this holds the cards where the dealer draws from), a drop box (where everyones hard earned cash goes into), a discard rack (where the cards are placed by the dealer once they are out of play), and a dealers chip rack (where the banker/dealer holds all the chips that are used to pay out wins or collect losses). Once the dealer has shuffled, cut the cards and burned (discarded)  the first card, he will place the cards into the shoe and is ready to go. Players place their bets and the dealer will begin from his left and deal every player including himself, a face up card. He will then deal a second face up card to every player except for himself. Now that every player has a two card total, the dealer will then point at each circle and a decision from each player has to be made in one of five ways:

Stand:           Receive no more cards
Hit:                Take another card
Double up:   Increase your bet to receive one more card
Split:             Make two hands from the first two cards you are dealt
Surrender:   After receiving your first two cards you can decide to lose one half of your bet and not continue the hand

After all player decisions have been made and played out the dealer will deal his cards last.