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Blackjack rules
Blackjack is a simple game once you have played it a lot.
Many Blackjack players prefer to study all of the rules before they sit
down, and this isn´t a bad idea…
Generally, each player competes against the dealer, not against the other
players. You have to beat the croupier by drawing cards until your hand
comes close to 21, and no more.
The blackjack game has a dealer and from 1 to 7 players.
You have a “blackjack” or a “natural” if your
first two card total 21. If the house gets closer to 21 than you without
going over, then they win.
Online blackjack rules are the same as in a land-based Blackjack table,
depending on the variables that the Casino chooses for the game.
The values of the cards are:
- 10, J, Q, K = 10
- Ace = 1 or 11
- other cards = face value
Each player receives two cards, face up or not, depending on the Casino
rules. The dealer deals himself a face down and a face up card.
The rules for the dealer are:
- If his hand is 16 or less, he must take a card.
- If his hand is 17 or more, he must stand.
The dealer can’t change his decisions.
The players could take some actions with their cards, if it has not been
determined that the dealer has a blackjack.
The player can ask the dealer a hit, if he wants another card. In face
up card games, players aren’t allowed to touch them, so to ask another
card the players have to scratch the table. In face down games, the players
would use his cards to scratch the table.
The players may hits the times they want to, while they don't exceed
a total of 21.
The player says the dealer that he wants to stand if he doesn’t
want anymore cards. In face up games the way to inform it, is moving his
hand. In face down games, you stand by tucking your first cards under
your bet.
A “double” of your bet could be made after take a look of
your hand. If you decide to double your bet, then you recieve one more
card.
If a player surrenders, he lose half of his bet.
The player has busted if his hand exceeds the total of twenty one. Then
he loses the hand and his bet and hand is collected inmediatly by the
croupier.
When the croupier's card is an Ace, then the players can make a bet called
insurance, that is half of the first bet. The players’ll paid 2/1
if the croupier has a blackjack. If the house doesn’t have a 21,
the player lose the bet.
Craps Guides
We should start with some first steps of the game to explain how your
first bet would be made.
‘Pass line bet’: You have to place your chips in the band
that goes around the outside of the craps’ table with the word Pass
written in it. This 'Pass line bet' is placed before the ‘come out
roll´, that is the first roll of a play. Since there’s nobody
playing with you when you’re online, it might be hard to tell if
the play has already started. Nevertheless, there is one certain way to
determine if the play has begun, otherwise you’d be on the `come
out roll’.
Playing online as in land-based Craps games, you’ll find on the
table, what is called a ‘puck’. On one side of the ‘puck’,
you’ll find the word ‘OFF’ and the word ‘ON’
on the other one. If you are on the ‘come out roll’, so the
play hasn’t started yet, the puck will be ‘OFF’ side
up.
The biggest premiss of Craps games focuses on the two states that the
game could be in. Which would be these states? When the puck is on the
table setting to ON (session has started) or it’s off the table
setting to OFF (session isn’t started). So as we said, when the
session hasn’t started yet, there’s were you place your pass
line bet.
Now the pass line bet has been placed, so the come out roll is throw.
If, after thrown, the total of the two dices adds up to 2, 3 or 12, every
pass line bet loses and the plays starts again. Even so, if the total
of the dices is a 7 or an 11, the play also resets but all pass line bets
win. If a different number is thrown, the play has started and that total
gets the name of ‘point number’ for the rest of the session.
Maybe, visualizing this might help you to understand… take a look
to the following session diagram:
If a point number is thrown, pass line bets just stay in place, and their
fortune would be decided later in the play.
Here at this point of the session, the pass line is usually backed up
with an odds bet. Generally called 'placing odds', this kind of bet is
specially to craps, and what you are doing is backing up a bet set before
with more money. You are allowed to back up with odds just a couple of
bets, and normally one of them is the pass line bet.
'Shooting for the point now': It is the way the session progresses. Imagine
that on the come out roll you rolled a six, then the point number would
be now six. To win your pass line bet, you’d need to roll a six
before a seven is rolled. The play is finished when the shooter hits their
point, or a seven, and it continues to throw the dices until they hit
either one of those numbers. While those numbers don’t come up,
any other number could. So if that happens, you can place all kind of
bets on these rolls.
If the point number is hit the pass line bets win, on the other hand if
a seven is thrown that makes all pass line bets lose.
Well, after all these explanation you should know how to place a pass
line bet or what a session/play is, so you are now able to play a basic
craps’ game. About the other bets available, you’ll learn
meanwhile you’re playing and you can read about craps’ rules
too. Try our free version of the craps game and discover everything about
it.
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