In Face Up 21 your cards and the dealers are both face up, so you can see exactly what the dealer has. If the dealer has a “stand” hand – 17 and up – the game will automatically “hit” you until you either win or bust. This is because you know you have lost if the dealer beats you on the deal! This makes the game play very fast.

All ties are won by the dealer and Blackjack pays even money.

Face up 21

Match Play 21

Match Play 21 follows the same game play as normal blackjack, but the 10 cards are missing from the deck. In addition to this there are a number of special hands with special payouts as per the table below. Match Play 21 also supports surrender – you can forfeit the hand and get ? your money back at any stage in the game. You may only double once per hand. You may split twice.

The dealer hits a soft 17, otherwise plays pretty much as you would expect.

Hand Payouts :

*Non-doubled hands and non-split hands only

Match Play 21

Pontoon

In Pontoon both the dealer’s cards are dealt face down. A Pontoon is the same as Blackjack – 2 cards totaling 21.

You must hit if you have less than 5 cards and the total score is less than 15. You may not draw more than 5 cards (at that stage you already have a 5 card trick). You may double but only once. You may split once or twice.

Payouts are according to the following table. Note the 5 card trick payout – that is for any valid hand with 5 cards. It ranks just below Pontoon in importance. Note also that the dealer wins all ties.

Payouts

Match Play 21 follows the same game play as normal blackjack, but the 10 cards are missing from the deck. In addition to this there are a number of special hands with special payouts as per the table below. Match Play 21 also supports surrender – you can forfeit the hand and get ½ your money back at any stage in the game. You may only double once per hand. You may split twice.

The dealer hits a soft 17, otherwise plays pretty much as you would expect.

Payouts

*Non-doubled hands and non-split hands only

Vegas Blackjack

Perfect Pairs

Perfect Pairs blackjack is exactly the same as standard blackjack but with the addition of a great side bet called the “Perfect Pair”.  This may only be played together with a bet on the blackjack game, and pays out when the first two cards are a pair according to the following pay table:

Perfect Pairs

European Blackjack
The main difference between European Blackjack and Vegas Blackjack is in the game play. In European Blackjack the dealer only deals one card for himself – face up.  The second card is dealt after all players have been offered a card.  This leads to some interesting situations in real casinos where players blame the last player on a table for not hitting their 15 when the dealer draws 6 and 5 on a 10 first card – these can get quite acrimonious! Luckily this problem doesn’t exist on US-Blackjack.com!

European Blackjack

Apparently Bryan is happy to have assistance dealing with the tax bill that also hit this month. I bet he is…

The Top Gaming software is actually quite nice.  It has two varieties of Blackjack and also some great slots and Video Poker.  Well worth a look-see.