After the shuffle and cut, the top card (the burn card) is usually taken out of play without being seen and put in the discard tray. After all the wagers are placed in the appropriate betting squares, the dealer then deals clockwise from first base to third base, one card at a time to each player. The cards may be dealt face down, in which case you are allowed to handle them to determine their value.

If the cards are dealt face up, they are placed in front of your bet and are not to be handled. The dealer always has one card face up and one card face down (except in the English version, where the dealer takes one face-up card and takes the second card only after all the players’ hands are completed).

After each player has two cards, the dealer goes back to first base and continues clockwise around the table, giving additional cards to players as they desire (called hitting), until the players wish no more cards (called standing) or have exceeded the 21 count (called busting). After collecting the bets of all players who have busted, the dealer reveals his down card (or takes a second card in the English version). He then hits or stands according to the casino rules and collects from or pays off the remaining players accordingly.

When your play is complete, you will want to take your casino chips and change them back into currency. The dealer cannot do this for you, since the currency slot at the table is a one-way path only. The casino will have a central cashier cage for changing chips. This not only reduces the chance of theft from the casino, it also helps the casino bosses identify big winners. If you were a big winner and don’t want to fumble with a large number of small-denomination chips, ask the dealer to upgrade them for you before going to the cashier.

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Generally, the dealer doesn’t like to make change for over twenty units. A twenty-dollar bill at a one- or two-dollar-minimum table will usually get you ten silver dollars and two five-dollar chips. During play, if you want to break down a larger-denomination chip, merely place it beside the betting square and announce “change.” If you should run out of chips, you can buy more with currency.

There are no minimum buy-in rules at Blackjack. You can play with just one chip as long as it equals or exceeds the table minimum. You can carry your chips from table to table or even take them home overnight, or as a souvenir. If you have been betting more and more units and winning, the dealer will often pay you in larger-denomination chips, called upgrading your stack.

While some think that this is an attempt by the dealer to get you to bet more and more by giving you larger chips, you can always obtain whatever change you need at any time at your discretion. The dealer is only making change the easy way by returning fewer but larger-denomination chips, or trying not to run short of his lower-value chips in the chip tray.

If you have sat down at the finish of a deck or shoe, the deal will stop. After a thorough shuffle of the cards, the dealer offers one of the players the option of cutting. (You may refuse this if
you wish.) In a single- or two-deck game, the dealer offers the cards to a player.