Blackjack is one of the most popular and well known casino game.
Blackjack is a game of skill and chance between you and the Dealer.
Microgaming casinos offer Double Exposure Blackjack version played with eight standard decks of 52 playing cards that are shuffled before each game / hand.
In Double Exposure Blackjack, the Dealer both cards are dealt face up.
How to play Double Exposure Blackjack
The object of Blackjack is to beat the Dealer by either obtaining the highest possible hand without exceeding 21,
or by the Dealer's hand going bust. In this version of Blackjack
(Double Exposure), you can only bet one hand at a time. All face cards (Kings, Queens
and Jacks) have a value of ten (10) and the Aces can have a value of one or
eleven. Please refer to our basic blackjack rules to learn more about the game
terms and rules.
General Double Exposure
Blackjack Rules in Brief:
- Both Dealer cards are dealt face up
- Eight 52 card decks
- Dealer must hit soft 17
- You may double after a split
- You may only double on 9 to 11
- You may split 3 times to make 4 hards
- Dealer wins on all ties except on a natural Blackjack
- Player may split and re-split Aces
- No Insurance is allowed
Double Exposure Blackjack Strategy Card
In this game the players initially have advantage with ability to see all cards
but the casinos changed other rules in favor of the dealer.
Double Exposure's house edge is greater then conventional blackjack, however,
it still considers as one of the best games in the casino if played properly.
Blackjack strategy is printed as table with the dealer's up card
the first row and player's two card hand the second column. The entries in the table tell you
when you should Hit, Stand, Split or Double Down depending on the different combinations of
dealer and player's hands.
Optimal Double Exposure Blackjack strategy tables for Microgaming online casinos
games are shown above for hard totals,
soft totals and player's pairs, and Dealers hard or soft totals.
Today Microgaming casinos offers up to 10 different versions of Blackjack
including:
Atlantic City, Vegas Downtown, Vegas Strip,
Double Exposure,
European, Spanish Blackjack,
Multi-hand and
Triple Sevens progressive blackjack (follow left bar menu links to find rules and strategy cards for corresponding bj games).
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