The game of blackjack is played with a standard 52-card deck. The player stands behind the dealer, who deals five cards face down to the player, one at a time. The player then either looks at their hand, and decides whether to keep the card, or “hit” the table in order to remove one of the cards from their hand and replace it with another from the deck. If the player chooses to hit, they must decide which card they would like to remove – a two, three, or four – and place that card on the table in front of them. The dealer then replaces the card removed from the player’s hand with another from the deck. If the player chooses not to hit, they may either draw one card or keep the current hand.
If the player drAWS a card, they may either keep the current hand or replace one of the cards in their hand with a new one. If the player replaces a card in their hand with a new one, they must take all of the cards remaining in their hand and put them back on top of their original stack. At this point, any remaining cards in front of the dealer are turned over and added to the player’s current hand. The game continues as described above until someone reaches 21 points or until there are no more cards left in either players’ hands. In order to win at blackjack, a player must have at least as many points as their opponent – that is, if an opponent has 21 points in their hand and you have 20 points in your hand, you lose that round.
