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About Blackjack
Blackjack is played with six, standard 52-
card decks dealt from a “shoe” (a box
containing more than one deck). This
means that there are 24 cards of each
value in the shoe (24 aces, 24 kings,
etc.). This shoe is shuffled after 2/3 of
the cards have been dealt. The player
and dealer are dealt two cards each, one
of the dealer’s cards is dealt face down.
The number cards are equal to their face
value, the picture cards (king, queen,
and jack) count as 10, and the ace can
count as either 1 or 11, depending on
which brings the hand closer to 21. Note
that the four suits (hearts, diamonds,
clubs, and spades) have no effect on the
value of your hand.
The object of the game is simple: to have
a hand equal to “21” or closer to 21 than
the dealer's hand without going over 21.
A winning hand pays 1 to 1 to the play-
ers original bet, except blackjack (two
cards that together equal 21) which pays
3:2 (so a bet of $10 would win $15). If
the dealer and player stand on the same
value, then it is called a “push”, and no
one wins or loses the hand.
The dealer will continue to receive cards
until the hand equals or exceeds 17.
About Blackjack
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Using the Teach Mode
The Teach mode is designed to help
you learn how to play a better game
of Blackjack by showing you when
your move does not correspond to
the winning strategies (see pp. 10-
11). To select Teach mode, first
press
CLEAR
(You cannot change the
mode in the middle of a game).
Next, press
MENU
, and highlight the
Mode menu. Press
to highlight
Teach
, and press
ENTER
.
After each move that you make, you
will be shown when your decision is
different from the winning strategy.
(NOTE: Selecting Teach mode does
not change Video Poker.) To turn off
the Teach mode, first press
CLEAR
.
Next, press
MENU
, and highlight the
Mode menu. Highlight
Normal
, and
press
ENTER
.
