Blackjack
How to Deal Blackjack
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Table of Contents
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01 Cutting Cheques02 Blackjack House Shuffle
03 Card Value
04 Object of the Game
05 6 to 5 Pay Ratio (2 Methods)
06 Plucking
07 Card Placement Part 1
08 Card Placement Part 2
09 Card Placement Part 3
10 Entering and Leaving a Game
11 Rack Maintenance
12 Dealer-Hand Rules
13 Shoe Shuffle Procedure
14 Insurance
15 Casing the Layout
16 Stack Values
17 Playing Back Hands
18 Buy-Ins & Cheque-Change
19 3 to 2 Pay Ratio Tutorial
20 Double Deck Procedure
21 How to Hold and Pitch Double Deck
22 Single Deck Rules
23 Foreign Cheques
24 Conversions
25 Surrender
26 Closing a Table
27 Opening a Table
28 No Peek Blackjack
29 Fills and Credits
30 Markers
31 Call Bets
32 Color-Ups
Understanding your stack values are vitally important in multiple points of your dealing career; especially if you intend to be a floor supervisor one day.
Knowing your stack values is useful in areas such as opening a table, closing a table, pay ratios, fills, credits, the list goes on. We can't emphasize enough how important this simple skill is. Please do not underplay the importance of knowing your stack values.
As a recap:
White = $1 Cut in stacks of 5 | Stack value of $20
Red = $5 Cut in stacks of 5 | Stack value of $100
Green = $25 Cut in stacks of 4 | Stack value of $500
Black = $100 Cut in stacks of 5 | Stack value of $2,000
Purple = $500 Cut in stacks of 4 | Stack value of $10,000
These colors described above are (for the most part) considered an industry standard. Most casinos will generally follow this color scheme although they may differ in some ways.
Commit all of this information to memory. You WILL need it as a dealer in more ways than 1.