Blackjack is a card game that is played with two decks of 52 cards. The object of the game is to get as close to 21 without going over. To do this, players place chips on their cards, and the dealer then deals one card to each player. Players can either keep the card or replace it with another one from their hand. The player with the Lowest card (or if there is a tie, the next Lowest) goes first and plays another card. If that card is lower than the previous card, then the player gets to add that number of chips to the pot; if it’s higher, then they lose the chips. The betting then proceeds as follows: Player 1 bets 1 chip; Player 2 bets 2 chips; Player 3 bets 3 chips; and so on. Each time a bet is made, the Dealer burns one card from each deck and replaces it with a new one from the stock.
The dealer burns a total of 10 cards in this way, leaving just two decks in play – blackjack and red jack (the two jacks being worth 10 each). Blackjack is considered to be a draw game if both players end up with an identical hand (two of a kind, three of a kind, etc.). If one player has blackjack and the other has red jack, then blackjack is considered to be a push game. If both players have blackjack, then blackjack is considered to be a win for both players. In some variations of blackjack (e.g., Spanish 21), there are also other hands that may count as wins or losses (e.g., three of a kind).
