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One of the things people who love playing blackjack often ask us is when to split pairs. Splitting Pairs For those of you who maybe aren’t familiar with the ins and outs of the rules of blackjack, when you are dealt a pair of cards, of any value, you have …

Blackjack allows the Ace card to have a value of either 1 or 11, whichever you prefer. An ace and a card is called a soft total due to it not being a fixed amount. As an example, an Ace and a 3 in your hand could be worth either …

A blackjack hard total hand is one where the two cards dealt to the player are of a fixed value. i.e. the hand does not hold an Ace, as in a blackjack soft total hand. For example, a seven and an eight have a fixed value of 15 and cannot …