Blackjack Variations

You can play blackjack game with one, two or six decks. Each deck must contain 52 cards. Depending on the quantity of decks there are such blackjack games as Single Deck, Double-Deck and 6-Deck Blackjacks. There is also Blackjack Switch which is played with 6 decks of 52 cards.
These blackjack games have some differences.

Single Deck Blackjack
There are only one deck and one player in this game. You should play blackjack one-to-one with the dealer. There is also one more detail – the player has the right to play only at one box.

Double-Deck Blackjack
This blackjack is played with two decks, so there are 104 mixed cards. Each box is paid singly and you can play at one, two or three boxes.

6-Deck Blackjack
This game is played with the deck of 312 cards. As in the Double-Deck Blackjack you can play for one, two or three boxes. In the 6-Deck blackjack if you get two identical cards you can share them between two hands and play two games at the same time, but making additional bet on the second hand.

BlackJack Switch
This game is playing on two hands. The exchange between two hands can be made only by upper cards and only one time. The main particularity of this game is the possibility of making additional bet, which is paid at the end of the game as a result of poker combinations of four cards dealt in the beginning of the game. The payoff is making like that: two identical cards – 1:1, three cards – 5:1, four cards – 40:1.

If you often play blackjack online, you may notice that none of the virtual casinos offers classic blackjack online. The reason of it is very simple. The matter is that classic blackjack isn’t profitable for the casino. The classic blackjack was often offered in the first online casinos, but in the contemporary gaming houses you can find only some variants of this game. Sometimes the rules of these blackjack variants are quite different from its classic version. One of the variation of online blackjack is Blackjack Switch. This game is offered only by the casinos working on the software from Playtech company. The particularity of this game is in the fact that cards are dealt to two hands at the same time. It means that the gambler can play two card combinations simultaneously. Of course, in this variant of the blackjack several decks are used at the same time, that’s why the house edge is higher in Blackjack Switch, but the game stays popular among many gamblers. Each gambler finds there something attractive.

The other popular variant of blackjack offered now by casinos is Pontoon. If you want play this game you should know that its rules can be very different from the classic blackjack, so the payoffs wouldn’t be ratable. The difference of this game is in the absence of Tens. All other cards as King, Queen, Jack are counted as Tens giving the player ten pips. As you can notice the difference is quite big. But however all the blackjack variations have their admirers.