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Free Blackjack
The Cards:
Free Blackjack is one of the many casino games. Use a standard fifty two card deck. Suits are disregarded. Cards are valued numerically: ace, 1 or 11; face cards (K, Q, J), 10 each; others according to their spots, 10 down to 2. Up to 12 people can play at a time.
Tips on How to Play:
In free Blackjack one player acts as a banker and deals one card face down to all players. Look at the card and bet up to an agreed limit. Dealer doesn’t bet but may double the amounts; if he does, players may redouble individually, if a player is unwilling to double, he dealer wins that player’s original stake. Deal a new card face up, dealer included. If a player has a natural 21, (a ace (11) and a face card or ten) he collects twice the amount of his bet from the dealer, unless dealer has a natural too. If so, dealer collects the amount the player bet, or twice the amount from all players who don’t have a natural.
If dealer has no natural, he pays off any player who does, have starting with players at his left, he deals cards face up, one by one, as the player calls for them. Try to get as close to 21 without busting. Stand when you have enough cards, if you want more, say, "Hit me." In Blackjack if you go over 21, your hand is a "bust", if you turn it down dealer collects the bet.
Dealer does the same with all remaining players and so on. Any who stand wait while dealer draws cards for himself; if he busts, he pays all standing players the amount he bet. In free Blackjack if dealer stands, all cards are turned up and dealer pays off players with totals higher than his, and collects from those lower or equal. Ties favor dealer, same as naturals.
Each new free Blackjack dealer shuffles the deck and cuts it before he deals. Popular rules are for players to "cut for low" to decide the new dealer, (he can sell it to the highest bidder before or after a hand). If he deals a natural to another player and can’t match it, that player deals starting with the next hand. With more than one claimant, the player closest the dealer’s left deals.
Standard free Blackjack rules are that the new dealer shuffles the deck, and cuts it, then turns up the top card and burns it by placing it face up at the bottom of the deck. Dealer deals a regular round, gathers the dealt cards, places them face up under the burnt card and deals another round from the top of the deck. He continues with the next round until he comes to the burnt card, pause the deal turn the deck face down, shuffle it, cut it, and burn another card, then continue the deal from where it was stopped. At the beginning of any round in which the burnt card is soon due to appear, dealer may turn all cards in the deck face down and shuffle as with the original deal.
Free Blackjack Special hands:
Blackjack Splitting Pairs:If a player’s first two cards, down and up, are the same denomination, as two kings, or any other pair down to two deuces, he can turn the first card up and call each member of the pair the up card of a separate hand, betting equally on each. Dealer then gives him two down cards, one for each hand; and the player draws or stands on each. With a pair of cards valued at 10 each, or a pair of aces, the player has twice the usual chance of making a natural.
Blackjack Doubling Down:If a player’s first two cards total 11, (9-2, 8-3, etc.), he can turn up his first card and call for another down card to replace it, if he also doubles his bet. He must stand on those three cards, and play them as a regular hand. There is a one in three chance of making 21 this way. Players regard it as an ideal opportunity to double a bet. By agreement, players may double down on a total of 10 (as 2-8, 3-7, 4-6, 5-5) or a total of 9 (as 7-2, 6-3, 5-4). In the case of a 9, if the player is dealt a 2, he can turn it up, add it to his total, to make 11, and demand another down card.
Instructions on Payoff Hands:
By agreement in free Blackjack, a player holding any of the following combinations may turn up his down card and demand an instant payoff, even if the dealer can’t later match or exceed his total.
In free Blackjack any five cards that don’t exceed 21. Player gets double the amount of his bet. For additional cards double the bet (as 3-5-2-2-3-4, four times). (Or 5-3-3-A-A-2-6, eight times.) (Or 2-3-2-4-4-2-A-3, sixteen times.) A total of 21 composed of a 6, 7, and 8 pays double the bet. A total of 21 composed of three 7’s pays triple the bet.
Blackjack Strategy:
Free Blackjack is a gambling game of odds, developing a basic game strategy such as card counting can increase your odds of winning. Also getting tips from more experienced players will help. Because of the internet many online casinos have developed.
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