Hi I'm Brian from Casino Rama Resort and this is Blackjack Switch. Blackjack
switch is a derivative of blackjack played with some exceptions and some
different rules than your standard blackjack. If you haven't already done so
I recommend you watch our video on how to play blackjack and familiarize
yourself with some of the rules with that game. If you come to the table you
will place your money or cash on the table and keep in mind you cannot hand
anything to the dealer directly hand to hand. So you're gonna place your money on
the table and the dealer will exchange your cash for chips. $300, there we go.
In order to receive cards in blackjack switch, you are going to need to place two identical
wagers on the spots here. So let's go ahead and set 25 and 25. Here we go, the
dealer closes the bets, no more bets. Now the advantage of blackjack switch and
the reason why we call it blackjack switch is that you can switch your top
two cards to make two different hands than what you originally started with.
Now you as a player will not switch the cards, the dealer will switch them for
you, but they will ask you if you would like to switch. We can see in this
instance you have 18 on one hand and 13 on the other. However if you tell the
dealer you'd like to switch, the dealer will switch the top two cards. Now you can
see you have 11 on one hand and 20 on the other. Same rules as regular
blackjack apply, you could double down and you can split. So let's go ahead and
say on this hand you want to double down. You double your 11, one card only, 21 on 20.
Remember our hand signals, this means no card, or you can tap the
table if you'd like a card. You've got 20 here we'll say no card. Dealer has 12, 19.
20 and 21 are both winning hands, we're gonna size in and pay one to one.
Alright now let's go ahead and set up as if we have a few extra players here and let's
talk about our side bet that we have here on blackjack
switch. We have an optional side wager called the Super Match. The super match
is based on your four cards that you get dealt originally. If amongst those four
cards you have a pair, it pays 1 to 1. A three-of-a-kind pays 5 to 1, 2 pair pays
7 to 1 and if all four are exactly the same card
it pays 50 to 1. So let's go ahead and put $5.00 on each of the super match and
see what happens. No more bets.
Okay so we see here we got a 5, a 6, a queen, a 9, there are no pairs. So the
super match does not win. Here we have two aces. Keep in mind they don't have to
be together, just amongst the 4 cards. If there is one pair it's a winning hand. So
we have two aces, one pair, pays 1 to 1. So go ahead and pay up the super match. Once
all the super matches are taken care of, we're now ready to play regular
blackjack. Okay would we like to switch these? Sure,
why not. It gives us two aces and a nine, so we're gonna switch. We can also split.
Same rules as regular blackjack, if you decide to split aces
you only get one card on each 21 and 19. On the 9 you have the option to hit, you
could double or you could stand. Let's go ahead and say we're gonna double. One
card only. 12. Here again we could switch but we have 19 and 11 so we're not gonna
switch. 19, we'll say no card. 11 we'll go ahead and hit, then we have 21. Dealer has
12, 21. All right we're gonna go ahead and push. 19, take, take, take. And push here
as well.
One other thing you need to be aware of on Blackjack switch, if the house dealer
pulls 22, every bet on the table will become a push. Unlike regular blackjack
where 22 the dealer breaks or goes over and everyone wins, on 22 it is a push, so
if you have 12, 19 even if you have 21 all bets on the table will push when the
dealer pulls a total of 22. All right that is blackjack switch.