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Updated On: September 27, 2011, 1:24 pm

Beat the Blackjack Dealer

The rules of a blackjack game is not rally hard as what you have in mind. The objective of this game is to for a player to beat the house down. Your goal as a player is to get to a total of 21 from the cards that are dealt to. However, this does not happen all the time and it depends on the number of the players of a certain table. You must aim to score higher than that of the dealer. When you choose to sit in a table with a low minimum, there would be a big chance that you would only play a one on one game with the dealer or sometimes you would be playing with novices since low minimum are usually the one recommended for newbies. You focus must be on the dealer alone. Each and every player plays for themselves alone and all of them plays against the dealer.

For a player to correctly play the game, there would be a circle or a box found on the table that would say the bets and it is where the chips are placed. If you weren't able to change, the dealer will be readily available to give you coins. The larger the chips goes on the bottom and the smaller chips goes to the top of the pile. The value of cards in a blackjack game are as follows, face cards two to ten are the face value, the King, Queen and Jack has a value of ten, while the Ace has a value of 1 or 11 points. Your goal is to get to the 21 without going beyond that value.

The cards can be given in any kind of combination. The dealer deal one card to you which is face up and another card which is face down. You have to keep the cards face down so that other players will not be able to see you cards. Add the two cards that was dealt to you and see the total, this will determine of you still have to ask for another card or not. Remember that you should not go beyond 21. say for instance, if you are holding a 7 and an Ace, you have two options in using these cards. Since the Ace card can be a 1 or an 11, you can use your cards as an 8 and ask for another card, or you could use it as an 18 and keep holding to it. You would want to hold a card 17 and about since the chance of getting a four or lower is far from your favor. Anything that is lower than 16 will prompt you to ask for more cards and just hope for the best.