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  2. Aces and eights (blackjack) - Wikipedia

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    Two aces and two eights in a standard deck of playing cards.. Splitting aces and eights is part of blackjack basic strategy.Rules vary across gambling establishments regarding resplitting, doubling, multiple card draws, and the payout for blackjack, and there are conditional strategic responses that depend upon the number of decks used, the frequency of shuffling and dealer's cards.

  3. Shoe (cards) - Wikipedia

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    A dealing shoe or dealer's shoe is a gaming device, mainly used in casinos, to hold multiple decks of playing cards. The shoe allows for more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles and less chance of dealer cheating. [ 1 ]

  4. Blackjack - Wikipedia

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    Video blackjack game rules are generally more favorable to the house; e.g., paying out only even money for winning blackjacks. Video and online blackjack games generally deal each round from a fresh shoe (i.e., use an RNG for each deal), rendering card counting ineffective in most situations.

  5. Glossary of blackjack terms - Wikipedia

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    When the dealer shows an ace and the player has a blackjack, the player can opt for even money and get paid immediately at 1:1. This is a version of insurance rather than a different bet. If the dealer has blackjack, the hand is a push, but the player receives twice the value of the insurance, which is the same as the original bet.

  6. Card counting - Wikipedia

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    A blackjack game in progress. Card counting is a blackjack strategy used to determine whether the player or the dealer has an advantage on the next hand. Card counters try to overcome the casino house edge by keeping a running count of high and low valued cards dealt.

  7. Twenty-one (banking game) - Wikipedia

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    The first dealer is chosen by any agreed method, e.g. the first player to turn up an ace becomes the dealer. It is likely that deal and play were clockwise and that players staked a fixed amount before the deal, but the rules are vague on these points. The dealer deals two cards to each player, one at a time.

  8. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (blackjack) - Wikipedia

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    The publication and subsequent notoriety of the book was the cause at the time behind many casinos changing the rules and conditions of how Blackjack was offered – for example, they stopped dealing single-deck Blackjack down to the last card. [14] After players began complaining, most casinos went back to the previous rules and conditions.

  9. Pagat.com - Wikipedia

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    Pagat.com is a website containing rules to hundreds of card games from all over the world. Maintained by John McLeod, it contains information for traditional, commercial, and newly invented card games from all over the world.