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  2. Glossary of blackjack terms - Wikipedia

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    A device used to hold multiple decks of cards, typically 4, 6 or 8. Cards are dealt one at a time from the shoe. shoe game A blackjack game dealt from a shoe. Shoe games typically use more than 2 decks. soft A soft hand is a hand that includes an ace valued as 11, as opposed to 1. split

  3. Second dealing - Wikipedia

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    This is intended to prevent the dealer from gaining information about the next card to be dealt, since the second card is concealed by the top. Ironically, the second deal can be used to discard the second card from the pack and deal the original first. The design of the back of the card can either help or hinder second dealing.

  4. Shoe (cards) - Wikipedia

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    Shoe (cards) 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] In some games, such as blackjack (where card counting is a possibility), using multiple decks ...

  5. Blackjack - Wikipedia

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    Pontoon, twenty-one, Siebzehn und Vier, vingt-et-un. Blackjack (formerly black jack and vingt-un) is a casino banking game. [ 1]: 342 It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as "twenty-one".

  6. Malaysian Pontoon - Wikipedia

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    The Australasian version of pontoon is an arithmetical game played on a table with the same layout as blackjack. In each deal, the player's aim is to receive cards totalling more in face value than the banker's, but not exceeding 21, otherwise he/she is "bust" and loses. A 21 consisting of an ace and a card worth 10 is a pontoon, and pays extra.

  7. Casino Tycoon (video game) - Wikipedia

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    This game features characters such as Marlon Brando from The Godfather. One mission is for players to become the first casino to attain Five-star rating or make 50,000 pounds. Players control all aspects of the casino, including hiring staff, buying casinos, and managing the day-to-day operations. The basic aim of the game is to own and manage ...

  8. Gaming the system: Edward Thorp and the wearable computer ...

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    By then, it was the summer of 1961, and the two decided it was time to test the computer in a casino. In August, they went to Vegas for a week -- Shannon's wife, Betty, and Thorp's wife, Vivian ...

  9. Chinese Blackjack - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Blackjack is also known as 21-point, ban-luck (), ban-nag (), and xì dách ().The game is played in South East Asia and resembles conventional Blackjack.In Malaysia, this variant is known as Kampung (Village) Blackjack to differentiate it from the standard Casino Blackjack, and it grew from the game played in the old days in villages.