The Online Blackjack Games You Should be Playing

The most popular casino table game in the world, Blackjack has been enticing players with its unique combination of strategy and chance for more than 200 years. Euro Palace is proud to bring incredible variations of the game to online and mobile gamblers all around Canada.

Blackjack Basics

The point of any Blackjack game is to get a hand total of 21, or as close as you can to that without going any higher. All number cards and royal cards are worth their pip value and 10 respectively, while aces are worth 11 or 1, whichever works best in the hand.

A hand with a royal card and an ace is Blackjack and wins automatically. If you’re lucky enough to land this, you get a 3:2 return. When neither of the hands is a Blackjack, you win if your hand total is less than 21 and the dealer’s is either more than 21, or less than yours. In both these cases, you’re paid out 1:1.

Go For The Winning Hand Online

In each round of Blackjack, you place your bet and then the dealer gives each player and themselves 2 cards. You can see your own cards and usually 1 of the dealer’s, and based only on that information and your knowledge of the odds of the game (which change depending on things like the number of players and the number of decks being used) you need to decide what to do next.

Different versions of Blackjack have arisen over the years, but the basic moves are as follows:

• Hit: Get dealt another card
• Double Down: Double your bet and receive only one more card before your turn is over
• Split: Divide 2 cards of the same value into 2 new hands and get dealt 1 more new card to each of the new hands before your turn is complete
• Stand: Take no additional cards
• Surrender: Available only after the first 2 cards are dealt; you forfeit half your bet and stop playing in the round

Other terms are also important in Blackjack lingo, and you’ll often come across the follow:

• Going Bust: When your hand total exceeds 21
• Hard Hand: A hand with no aces
• Soft Hand: A hand with at least 1 ace

Blackjack Games at Euro Palace

At Euro Palace Casino Canada we offer several variations of the game of Twenty-One, as it is often known, and you’ll enjoy discovering them all:

• Single-Hand Blackjack: Atlantic City Blackjack, Vegas Strip Blackjack, European Blackjack
• Multi-Hand Blackjack: Multi-Hand Vegas Downtown Blackjack, Multi-Hand Atlantic City Blackjack, Multi-Hand Spanish 21 Blackjack
• Gold Series Blackjack: Multi-Hand Big 5 Blackjack Gold, Vegas Strip Blackjack Gold, Multi-Hand Spanish 21 Blackjack Gold
• Live Casino Games: Beat a real-life dealer at a table of 7 other players, with real equipment! The results are video-streamed to you as they happen, and you can choose to have a dealer dressed in the usual formal attire or as a Playboy bunny for a little more fun. Take advantage of several special features including Bet Behind, which allows you to bet on other players. Track their progress on the Hot Streaks table, in the top right-hand corner of the screen.

Indulge in all that we have to offer Blackjack enthusiasts in Canada when you sign up with Euro Palace Casino and play a game of skill and strategy to land a big win!