Online Casino Blackjack Rules

Online Casino Blackjack Rules

Chips and Bets

Buying Online BlackJack chips is very easy and secure.
Once you have sat at an online BlackJack table, you should see several different chips in front of you with different values on them.
You can use these chips by clicking on them and then clicking on a betting spot on the table.
Each blackjack hand area on the blackjack game table has a betting area.
This is often shown by a round circle, slightly larger than the size of the chip.

When you place a chip on one of these areas, you wager the amount shown on the chip and that particular blackjack hand.

You can add to, and subtract from the amount in the betting area by selecting chips with different values from the chip area and left clicking ( add to bet ) or right clicking ( subtract from bet ). You cant reduce the bet amount below the tables minimum wager amount, and cant increase it beyong the tables maximum wager amount.
Once the cards have been dealt, you aren't allowed to touch the bet in the circle
Once you start the game, the amount on the chip is automatically subtracted from your online casino balance

Online Casino Blackjack Rules

Cashing in

Each time an online blackjack game is completed ( one or more winning or tied hands are found ), your online casino balance is automatically updated with your wins.
Normally, each winning or tied online blakcjack hand is shown with the win placed on top of the winning hand ( cards ) in chips.
There is no need to click on these chips or try to move them to your balance area, your online casino balance is automatically updated with your wins.

BlackJack basics

The basic premise of the game is that you want to have a hand value that is closer to 21 than that of the dealer, without going over 21.
If you are playing at a multiplayer table, the other players at the table are of no concern.
Your hand is strictly played out against the hand of the dealer, if you play more than one hand, each hand is played against the hand of the dealer on its own.

The rules of play for the dealer are strictly dictated, leaving no decisions up to the dealer.
Because the dealer is completely unable to act based on anything except the stricktly dictated rules it is not a problem that the dealer or any of the other players at the table is allowed to see the cards in your hand.

In fact, if you're playing at a shoe game, the player cards are all dealt face up.

Card values

The suits of the cards do not have any meaning in the normal version of the game.
The value of a hand is simply the sum of the point counts of each card in the hand.

Examples:
A hand containing (5,7,9) has the value of 21.

The Ace can be counted as either 1 or 11.
You need not specify which value the Ace has.
It's assumed to always have the value that makes the best hand.

Example:
You are dealt the following hand: (Ace, 6).
This hand can be either 7 or 17.
If you stop here, it will be 17.

Let's assume that you draw another card to the hand and now have (Ace, 6, 5). Your total hand is now 12, counting the Ace as 1, because the alternative ( counting the Ace as 11 ) results in a hand valued at 22. If a hand value exceeds 21 points, the hand "busts", - looses before the dealer is even allowed to draw.

A hand that contains an Ace is called a "soft" total if the Ace can be counted as either 1 or 11 without the total going over 21.


Example:
The hand (Ace, 6) is a soft 17.
The description stems from the fact that the player can always draw another card to a soft total with no danger of "busting" by going over 21.
The hand (Ace,6,10) on the other hand is a "hard" 17, since the Ace must be counted as 1, because counting it as 11 would make the hand go over 21.

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