Blackjack Intro: learn the rules

Blackjack is one the most popular and thrilling card casino games ever by right. It is unknown about certain origin of blackjack roots, but it is widely considered that the game arised in 17th century in France where it was called Vingt-en-Un, which is translated as 'twenty one'. In 1789, just after French Revolution, blackjack spread in America rapidly and securely winning hearts and minds of most inveterate gamblers for a long time.

The main thing regarding blackjack's charm concerns the fact that it is a game of skill, which means that players could achieve success in blackjack owing to perfect blackjack rules knowledge and their clever application.

Object of the game

Generally, blackjack is played with several full card decks (from 1 to 8 usually) and involves a dealer and players in the process. The main object of the game is to beat the dealer's card combination disregarding other gamblers' results.

There is certain quantity of points assigned to each card in blackjack and in order to win you need to count the card values in such way, so you would have more points in total than the dealer has. The only upper limit is 21 points and if it is happens that a player exceeds it, he or she are automatically regarded as losers.

Card Values

There is a list of blackjack card values that all gamblers ought to know in order to get winning card combination and hit the house:

  • cards from 2 to 10 are worth according to their original values;
  • face cards are valued 10 points each;
  • aces value could be either 11 or 1 depending on players' decision.

The game starts when a dealer shuffles a deck, show it to the players and ask a gambler next to him/her on left side to cut the deck. The dealer repeats the procedure till the moment when all players cut the deck and then, he/she takes way one or two upper cards and put them into a discard box. The rest of the cards are split in half with a particular plastic card and are placed into a special shoe, which is made of wood or plastic and could hold up to 8 decks of cards.

Further, the dealer should deal round the cards starting from his/her neighbor on the left side and moving clockwise. Usually, players' cards are seen for everybody while dealer's first card is put face down and called the hole card; and the second card is faced up.

Blackjack moves

Further, players are to make blackjack moves, which mean that they could choose among standing, hitting, doubling, splitting or surrendering their bets. After gamblers have played their hands, the dealer's turn comes. Usually, the dealer should hit till the moment he/she gets 17 points or more.

Finally, the most exciting moment is to compare your and the dealer's card values and if you are clever or lucky to have more points, you are considered as an unconditional winner.