Saturday, October 10, 2009

Blackjack

Online Blackjack Game - Learn to Play Better
By Anthony Burgos

Online Blackjack game gives you all the fun that you get from the table version of the game in a real casino. In fact, the facilities that come up with online blackjack game is much more than the table version of the game. Bonuses offered by online casinos to play online blackjack are very lucrative. In addition, free blackjack games are also offered by the online casinos, which are absent in most land based casinos. These free games help a new player to practice and consequently master the game to play like a professional.

Game Rules

Basic rules of online blackjack game are similar to that of the land based one. Every player playing online blackjack has the goal of achieving a hand with a figure as close as twenty-one as possible. But at the same time a player must keep in mind that the figure should not cross the twenty-one mark.

Some of the most important rules to play the game online are given below
The online blackjack game is played with a deck of fifty-two cards (excluding joker).

Multiple deck game is also played where more than one deck of card is used. A multiple deck online blackjack game can include anything between 2 to 8 decks.To play internet blackjack, a special form or design of table is used. A dealer is required in this game. In the online version, a specially designed software does all the works done by a dealer in a land based casino.

Limits of the online blackjack game must be printed on the specially designed blackjack table. Normally, there are two types of limits:
"Dealer must draw on 16 and stand on all 17's", or
"Blackjack pays 3 to 2"

You can bet in a blackjack table through chips, which are in turn available from the dealers. You need to buy the chips from the person who is dealing.

Different chips have different value:
A white chip values USD1
A red chip will cost you USD5
A green chip has the denomination of USD25
Black chips cost USD100.

Every table has its own minimum and maximum betting limit. Generally, the difference between the maximum and the minimum bet has a pre-assigned limit. The maximum bet is generally 10 - 20 times than the minimum one. Players in an online version of the game don't play against each other, rather they play against the dealer.

Values of different cards in a blackjack game:
Value of "Ace" is either 1 or 11, depending upon the choice of the payer
Value of "Jack" is 10
"Queen" value is 10
Value of "King" is also 10 points
Cards from 2 to 10 have the value equal to the face value of the card

Play Online Blackjack - Basic Playing Norms
Online blackjack game starts with the dealing of cards:
1.The dealer receives 2 cards, and
2.Each player also receives 2 cards

Cards of each player is played "face up" but in case of the dealer one of the card remains "face up" and the other "face down".

In any opening deal, the best hand is the one having one card of ace along with a card of 10 points. This combination of card is known as "twenty-one" or "blackjack". If a player possesses this hand then he/she automatically wins the game. But if the same combination of card is also possessed by the dealer along with the player then player gets a "push". Now, if the dealer possesses a "blackjack" combination of card and at the same time any player in the online blackjack game doesn't possess the combination then the player loses immediately.

Anthony Burgos is an online gambling aficionado. He has been playing online blackjack game from a very early age and has mastered the game. He is a professional gambler and lately has started to write articles to propagate the knowledge on the ways to play online blackjack.