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So they can check if they have blackjack without flipping the cards.
by sanswork 9y ago
So they can check if they have blackjack without flipping the cards.
- le-mark 9y agoWow how is that not cheating by the house?
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- ryandrake 9y agoIt's actually there simply to speed up the game. In blackjack, the house plays by a fixed set of rules: If cards are A, do B, if cards are C, do D. So there is no benefit to the dealer for knowing what his down-cards are. It saves everyone time: If the dealer has blackjack everyone loses anyway so there's no point to having everyone take the time to play that round.
- ColinWright 9y agoThat's not entirely true. Players might (stupidly) still choose to play, including doubling-down and/or splitting. In that case the player would lose more, so the hand should be played out. It depends on the house rules as to whether that's an option.
- ryandrake 9y agoYou're right, my explanation left that out. It depends on whether the casino believes they will make more money by letting stupid players play or by dealing more hands per hour.
- downandout 9y agoNot exactly. In "European style" blackjack, the dealer does not take a hole card until all hands have been played. House rules then dictate whether the extra money from doubles/splits is returned or taken in the event the dealer eventually draws a blackjack.
- ColinWright 9y agoBecause the rules in a casino about what a dealer does are independent of what the dealer holds.
- dmurray 9y agoBecause it's the rule and everyone knows about it. You could play the game without this with the exact same rules and the same odds, but it would be much more complicated to settle the bets at the end of the hand.
- sanswork 9y agoBecause it gives no advantage to the house. The cards are dealt if the house has blackjack then they have blackjack the prism doesn't change that only allows the dealer to know since dealer blackjack automatically wins against any player hand except blackjack.