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BLACKJACK

Blackjack is absolutely one of the most popular casino games and online casino games to ever be played. The game has a very long history and has been played for years and years. Blackjack is popular for several reasons. Firstly, the game is actually quite simple to understand and secondly, the game is actually one that would allow you to manipulate the odds ever so slightly in your favour.

The game has been played by some of the greatest mathematicians and those that are skilled with numbers to make the odds work for them in their favour and increase their chances of winning. Blackjack can be played using the simple rules or can be challenging by attempting to count the cards and predicting what will happen next thus increasing the odds in the players favour.

Online casino Blackjack has several different variations. The most popular way to play is the traditional game where a card is dealt to each player that is playing at that particular table. The card is dealt from a collection of multiple decks of cards. Blackjack can be played with as little as one deck of cards to as many decks as possible but the largest amount tends to be around 7 or 8.

There are a few game styles when playing Blackjack online; there is the Single Player game, Multi-player game, Multi-hand game, and also the Multi-Split game. The most common game to play is the Multi-player game.

The rules for online blackjack are very similar to land based blackjack. As mentioned above, there are likely 7 or 8 decks in play, the decks are re-shuffled after each hand is dealt and completed, the dealer will stand on all 17's, players have the option to double their hand after splitting, re-splitting of cards after a previous split on the same hand is not allowed, players are not permitted to surrender and there will only be one card dealt on a split pair of aces.

The terms for Blackjack are the same across the board. To “hit” means to ask for another card, To “stand” or “stay” means to stop and you will not receive any more cards, to “split” is to separate your original hand of doubles into two separate cards, to “double” means to double your bet in the hope of a winning card to follow, “insurance” is a bet made signifying that you think the dealer has blackjack and “blackjack” is an ace paired with a 10 or a face card meaning that your total is 21.