Blackjack lessons

The lessons in this track

1. 3.1Card values, soft and hard handsThe first thing a table asks you to know: what your cards add up to, and whether the ace among them can still be eleven.About 14 minutes
2. 3.2One round, every card face upA round of blackjack under Chile’s catalogue of games, step by step: no face-down card, and the dealer’s second card only after every player has finished.About 12 minutes
3. 3.3Hit, stand, double, split, retiroThe five moves a blackjack hand allows under Chile’s catalogue of games: when you may double, split or take the retiro, and what each move is worth.About 13 minutes
4. 3.5Why you act first, and what it costsWhere the house edge in blackjack comes from, priced hand by hand for the table rules the Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego (SCJ) sets for every casino in Chile.About 18 minutes
5. 3.6When to hit or stand on a hard totalThe decision you face on most blackjack hands, worked out for the catalogue of games the Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego (SCJ) sets for every casino in Chile.About 18 minutes
6. 3.7Doubling down: a second bet on one cardA second bet that buys exactly one card: the three totals these rules let you double, when the chart asks for it, and what each call costs.About 15 minutes
7. 3.8Soft hands: the ace that can't bust youThe hands where an ace still counts as 11, and what to do with them when the rules let you double only on 9, 10 or 11.About 13 minutes
8. 3.10The whole chart and your printed cardThree tables on one page, and your own two cards decide which of them you read. The whole chart, the movement of the eye that finds one cell, and a card to print.About 19 minutes
9. 3.11One catalogue, three blackjacksChile’s catalogue of games has three blackjacks — Black Jack, Challenge 21 and Canal 21 — under one name and three sets of rules: what changes, and what it does to the price.About 14 minutes
10. 3.12Insurance and even moneyThe offer that comes with an ace showing: what the insurance line is a bet on, how much the rules let you put there, and what even money is.About 15 minutes
11. 3.13Side bets: the price per hourThe second bet beside the hand is a bet of its own, with a pay table of its own and a price of its own by the hour.About 14 minutes
12. 3.17Third base, hot tables and the table's moodThe seat at the end of the table, the table that is said to be running hot, and what a neighbour’s decision can and cannot do to your hand.About 14 minutes

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