3. How to play blackjack
You can never win at casino blackjack if you don’t have even a basic knowledge of what each card’s value is – particularly since cards nowadays have markings with people in them (namely, the King, Queen, and the Jack – the Joker is never used in casino games.)
The Ace
The Ace (represented by a card with a capital letter A on the upper left hand corner on both the top and the bottom) is valued as either a 1 or an 11. The King, the Queen and the Jack are valued as 10 each, just like the number 10 card.
The other cards (numbers 2 to 9) are worth exactly what their number says – if you have a 2 then its value is two and so on. You need not bear in mind what suit your cards have because in blackjack that is irrelevant – all you are after as a blackjack player is the number value of each card.
To play blackjack
To play blackjack, you just add up the numeric value of each card in your hand to see if you can reach 21 (which means you got blackjack and won) or went over (meaning your hand went bust and you are out of that game for that hand.) it isn’t essential to say if you counted the Ace as a 1 or an 11 because in this game it will always be understood that your Ace will be valued to give you the best possible result. Meaning, if the Ace can be counted as an 11 to give you a winning hand, then you shouldn’t be afraid the Ace will be counted as a 1 by the dealer. Any hand with an Ace is deemed a “soft total” in blackjack, because it gives you the option of drawing another card – but if you go over 21, then it’s a bust.
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