BLACKJACK GLOSSARY. Part 1.
Anchor - Last taken seat to the dealer’s right
Black Chip - A $100 blackjack chip
Blackjack - Total of 21 on your opening two-card hand
Break (Bust) - Exceeding a hand total of 21 pointsand lose the hand
Burn Cards - Take away cards from the top of the deck and place them in the discard tray after shuffling and cutting
Double Down (Doubling Down) - The option of doubling your initial bet after the initial two-card deal, but you can hit only one card, turn over your first two cards
Double Exposure - Blackjack game in which both dealer cards are shown to the player before they play their hand, some house rules may be changed
Early Surrender - Surrender allowed before the dealer checks for blackjack, a player may give up after their first two cards but before the dealer checks for an Ace in the hole
Face Cards - Jacks, Queens and Kings, all with a value of 10
Face Down Game - Your first card is placed face up while the second one is placed face down
Face Up Game - Both your cards are placed face up
First Base - First taken seat to dealer’s left, where the first card is dealt, the first blackjack player to receive cards when the dealer deals the cards
Hard Hand (Hard Total) - A hand without an Ace, or with an Ace valued at 1, it can only be given one value
Heads Up or Heads On - A head to head play with the blackjack dealer only, with no other blackjack players
Hi-Lo Count - One-level blackjack card counting system where cards 2 - 6 cards get a value of plus one and the 10s and face cards get a value of minus one
Hi-Opt - One-level blackjack card counting system, it assigns the value of plus one to 3’s, 4’s, 5’s and 6’s; minus one to 10s cards
Hole Card - This is the facedown card that the blackjack dealer gets
Hot Deck - To take another card from the blackjack deck
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