What Happens When The Dealer Has Blackjack

Posted on  by

The dealer does not always win in blackjack. You have the ability to hit no matter what you have in your hand. The dealer has to stop once he reaches 17, even if you have 18. OK, in the case that the dealer might have a blackjack and a player (or any number of players) have blackjack, then there are 2 possibilities: 1. If the dealer has a 10 value up card, they will immediately peek at the bottom card, and if that card is an ace, they will flip it up and declare a blackjack.

06-04-2008, 04:30 AM
In blackjack, the dealer is required to hit if he has 16 or less with his cards and has to stand with 17 or more. Are these rules modified if one of the dealer's cards is an ace? I know that the rules regarding soft 17 (i.e., a 17 with an ace currently counting as 1, not 11) vary; in some places, the dealer has to hit on soft 17, in others he stands. But what about other hands? Suppose the dealer has an ace and a seven; all the remaining players have 19 or more. In this case, it would clearly be advantageous for the bank to hit, instead of standing with 18. Would it be allowed to do so? Are there standardized rules for this, or do they vary as they do about soft 17?

Thread Rating:

jacmrose
I was playing blackjack yesterday and it being a very slow Tuesday the penetration was very good probably close to 85-90%. I was at third base and the cut card came out two players before me. I ended up splitting to 3 hands and at the end there were only a few cards left in the shoe. If the cut card had come out at first base I'm pretty sure that we would have run out of cards. Has this happened before? What is the protocol in this situation?
Ibeatyouraces
Dunno. We once ran out of cards in a 6 deck CSM. Not even I noticed that the dealer wasn't putting the discards back into it.
Gabes22
Don't know what would actually happen with the game, but the dealer probably would be fired for starters
A flute with no holes is not a flute, a donut with no holes is a danish
Avincow

Don't know what would actually happen with the game, but the dealer probably would be fired for starters


That would probably not happen. The dealer ran out of cards once when I was playing single deck. The dealer cancelled the last round. I'm not sure if that's what's supposed be done, but that's what the dealer did.
Gabes22
They are not gonna do it right at the table with paying customers there. It would be done off the floor IMO
A flute with no holes is not a flute, a donut with no holes is a danish
sddealer
I've seen this happen at both of the places that I have dealt, and both times this is what happened.
The supervisor had the dealer shuffle (by hand) all of the discards, as though they were shuffling a complete deck/shoe, including having a player cut and burning the first card. The dealer then used the freshly shuffled pack to complete the round.
DJTeddyBear

... then used the freshly shuffled pack to complete the round.


Just that round? And then shuffle again???
Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown. But how much does it cost to knock on wood? 😁 Note that the same could be said for Religion. I.E. Religion is nothing more than organized superstition. 🤗
sddealer

Just that round? And then shuffle again???


Yes, a new shuffle after the round. At this point, the cards in the shuffle machine were ready to be dealt. I think the idea was that the players didn't want to play all the way through a shoe that was missing a bunch of cards when it was shuffled.
TriathlonTodd

I've seen this happen at both of the places that I have dealt, and both times this is what happened.
The supervisor had the dealer shuffle (by hand) all of the discards, as though they were shuffling a complete deck/shoe, including having a player cut and burning the first card. The dealer then used the freshly shuffled pack to complete the round.


My experiences align with sddealer. My first place had SD, and this was a nightly event by some dealer on the floor. They would deal out an extra round by mistake because they lost track of how many rounds they had dealt since the last shuffle, or you would get an extreme number of splits and drawn cards. Dealers were never more than lightly chastised by the floor for it. This in no way would even be close to an offense worth getting written up, let alone fired.
When it happens, we just did as sddealer described.

What Happens When The Dealer Has Blackjack Free

What happens when the dealer busts in blackjack

What Happens When The Dealer Has Blackjack Play

I've never seen it happen on a shoe game. I imagine the same procedures would be used. I envision it could only happen on a shoe game with either extremely deep penetration or the dealer forgot to put the cut card in indicating the end of the shoe.
Hunterhill
I've seen it happen on a shoe a csm and on a pitch game. It was not that unusual on pitch. On the csm they just put the cards back in the shuffler and continued on with the game. On the shoe the dealer forgot to put the cut card in.Theytold everyone that they would shuffle the remaining cards and finish the hand. We were given the option to back out of the hand also.

What Happens When The Dealer Has Blackjack Made

  • Page 1 of 3