All cards are dealt face up, that is visibly for all players, the dealer and the onlookers.Īfter that the dealer asks the players in the same order about their intentions and bets and he or she also announces the totals of the cards. Once the players place their bets on the designated boxes in front of them, the dealer first deals one card to every player including him- or herself in the clockwise order and after that one more card is dealt to the players only. Examples of Black Jack:ĭeal of Cards & Course of Play in Blackjack If the player counts an ace for 11 points, the total is called soft as the player cannot exceed 21 with another card in the opposite case the total is marked as hard.īlack Jack is a hand (or a combination) of an ace and ten or any figure (J, Q, K that are worth 10 points), the color plays no role.

Unlike Twenty One there is a new terminology in Black Jack: so called soft total and hard total. Ace can be worth 1 or 11 points at discretion. The cards 2 to 10 are worth their face value, while Jack, Queen and King are counted for 10 points. The card values in Black Jack are slightly different from Twenty One. The minimum and maximum bet is usually shown near the Black Jack table. Each player wins or loses their own individual bet. If there are more players playing Black Jack, it may happen (or it happens actually) that the dealer beats some player(s) and loses to the other(s) at the same time. When both player and dealer have the same total value of their cards, it is a tie and the bet is returned to the player.

If the dealer goes bust he or she loses against all the players who have not exceeded 21. If the player exceeds 21 – he or she is over or bust – and loses instantly regardless of the total value of the dealers’ cards. The goal of the player (or the players as there can be more players playing simultaneously) in Black Jack is to beat the dealer by the total value of their cards approaching 21 as much as possible and, at the same time, by having the higher total value of the cards than the dealer. There is a related game known as Twenty One (21). Black Jack is played with one or more 52-card decks (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A suited in four colors) such as Poker for example.

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