Basics of the Game & Strategies for Blackjack

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I am Joe Marshall with Expert Village.com and today we are going to learn how to win at Blackjack. The object of Blackjack is to be the closest to 21 and beat the dealer at the same time. Novice players just think get the 21 and you can win, but actually it is the only type of game where you playing the house. If you play in private games, you are really playing against your friends and it is a kind of weird. You need a designated dealer and you should play this game in a casino. Most casinos will use anywhere from 2 to 8 decks of cards. If they use more than two decks, they will actually put the cards in a shoe. It is a device that holds all the cards they can deal them out to the players. This is basically like a crude mock up that I did that shows the set up of a Blackjack table. The dealer stands behind the table and the players sit around it. These circles are usually where their bets are placed and then the actual table itself says that the dealer must draw to 16 and stand on all 17s. We will discuss that later but this is basically a set up that you walk in and see in most casinos. We are going to quickly go over the ranks of each of the cards. It is important to know. The 10, jack, queen and king all count as 10, so their values are all the same. The number cards are assigned their values as they are 2, 3, 4, 5, that is worth 6, that is worth 8, that is worth 9 and so on. The ace is a special card that can be counted as 1 or it can be counted as 11 and that is basically everything we need to know as far as the ranking of how we actually add up to 21.

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