Rules

• The shoe consists of eight decks.
• All five card hands that have not busted are valued equaly, the point total does not matter.
• Both of the dealers cards are dealt face down.
• The casino hits on soft 17.
• The dealer peeks for a pontoon (blackjack).
• The player can only stand on any total of 15 or more, or on any 5-card hand.
• The player can hit after doubling down.
• The player can double on up to four cards, but only once per hand.
• The player can re-split once, up to three hands.
• The player can hit and double after splitting aces.
• Pontoon or a five card hand pays two to one.
• There is no push, a tie looses.
• Otherwise the game follows the basic rules of blackjack.
• Otherwise refer to the basic rules of blackjack. Please refer to the Blackjack 101, Blackjack 201, and Blackjack 301 menus on this site for the basic rules of blackjack.

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