Blackjack Basics

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Hi! This is Daniel and behalf of Expert Village and this series of clips we’re going to be talking about the game 21 or more commonly known as blackjack. Blackjack uses a single deck or up to 6 decks of standard playing cards which has 52 cards in a deck, you’ll have an ace, you’ll have your standard face cards and then you’ll have all of your regular cards 2 through 10 are worth their value, your face cards are all going to be worth 10 and your ace is going to be worth either 1 or 11 depending on your hand. Players bet in blackjack using standard casino poker chips and there’s always a minimum at a table so you’ll want to make sure you understand what that minimum is when you’re betting. Now the goal of blackjack is to be the closes to 21 without going over or busting, so a player is going to bet or fold depending upon their hand and what they see the dealer having. Now it is a game of strategy and a game of odds and that’s something we’ll be talking about in later clips. So for now know that each player is dealt 2 cards and they’re going to make a bet based upon that. They can hit which means get another card, they can stay or stand which means they get no more cards, they can push which means they have the same as the dealer, they can double bond which means they simply double their bet and only get one more card rather than being able to continue to get cards until they feel that they are closes to 21 or they have busted or they can split. If they have 2 of the same cards they can create two hands by simply splitting the cards, equaling their bet and playing those as two separate hands. We’ll get into more details in later clips but that’s the basic of 21.

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