Great Blackjack Resource:pagat.com

I stumbled on to a great blackjack resource today over on Pagat.com it offers a great introduction to the game of blackjack as well as some indepth research.

Blackjack is a popular American casino game, now found throughout the world. It is a banking game in which the aim of the player is to achieve a hand whose points total nearer to 21 than the banker’s hand, but without exceeding 21.

In Nevada casinos the game is generally known 21 rather than Blackjack, and the holding of an ace with a 10-point card is called a “natural”.

Confusingly, the name Black Jack is used in Britain for an entirely different card game which is essentially the same as Crazy Eights.

The following outline explains the basic rules of standard blackjack (21), along with the house rules most commonly featured in casinos. Players should bear in mind, though, that blackjack rules vary from casino to casino, and check for local variations before playing.