Blackjack Glossary

 Anchorman
   player who sits in the last seat of the table, to the far right of the dealer and is last to act.


  Blackjack
   the hand that wins automatically, containing both an Ace and a 10 card.


 Bust
   a hand which exceeds 21 points in total, loses automatically.


 Dealer
    the one at the table who deals the cards and the one to beat.


 Deck
   standard amount of 52 cards used in a blackjack deck.


 Doubling Down
   double your initial bet after the first two-card deal, but you can only hit one time.


  First Baseman
   sits at the far left of the dealer in the 1st seat, is the player first to act.


 Hand
   cards that are dealt to each player.


 Head-to-Head
   playing one-on-one with the dealer with no other players present at the table.


 Hit
   receiving another card from the deal after the initial two cards are deal and a bet is placed.


 Hole Card
   the dealer's card which is faced down.


 Hard Hand
   A hand with no Ace card or with an Ace valued at 1.


 Insurance
   the Insurance bet is a side bet up to consisting of up to half the initial bet against the dealer who has a
   natural 21 - allowed only when the dealer shows an Ace. If the dealer then has a blackjack, insurance
   pays out at 2-1 odds, but loses if the dealer does not.


 Multiple-Deck
   playing blackjack with more than one deck in a shoe.


 Natural
   other slang term for a blackjack.


 Push or Tie
   Both dealer and player have an equal hand total - players keep the bet.


 Round
   everyone at the table has finished acting on their hands.


 Shoe
   the dealer’s box which contains a deck of cards, specially designed to deal one card at a time.


 Shuffle
   to mix up the cards before dealing.


 Single-Deck
   blackjack game where only one deck of cards is used.


 Soft Hand
   A hand that contains an Ace counted as 11 is called a Soft Hand.


 Split
   splitting the initial two-card hand into two and separate hands, only can happened when the two first cards are equal value.
   Equal bets are placed on two separate hands.


 Stand
   a player decides not to receive any more cards in a turn.


 Third Baseman
   sits at the far right of the dealer in the last seat and is the player to act last.


 Twenty-One
   another term for blackjack.


 Upcard
   the dealer's card which is face up and visible to all of the players.

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 How to play Blackjack
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