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New Game Betting 5.
 		Credits: 95
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Free Online Video Blackjack Program for Teachers and Students!
'I do play poker or Blackjack with older kids/adults but we use my token coins and these are returned to me at the end of the class (thus not gambling). Kids learn the words betting, cheating, cheater, bluffing, bluffer, the kitty, close, fold or out, hit me, bust, I'm out, I'm the winner. All of this is common English, just like many sporting terms, and kids need it to fully understand the language. Cards are a wonderful way to motivate students and teach English. They don't even think it as class work. The fascination with card games is that they involve mental math, chance, skill, social interaction and sometimes cheating or bluffing. They combine these things and have the appeal of interactive computer games.'   Robin Tim Day,  ESL Teacher
Blackjack pays 2.5 to 1
Surrender pays back 1/2 of bet amount
Dealer blackjack vs. Player blackjack is a Push
Dealer must hit on 16 or less.
Dealer must stand on 17 or above (soft 17 included).
You may double down on 10 or 11.
Double down deals only one card. 		You will begin with 100 credits, and may play as long as you still have credits. When you run out, you will be given 100 credits again to play some more!

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Program Summary by game creator: Kristina Pfaff-Harris
Please visit Kristina's site

[Version 1.0.1 Released 01/02/2004]

SFEBlackJack lets you set up a simple, online Blackjack game on your website. Also known as "21", the object of online Blackjack is the same as regular casino Blackjack: whoever gets closest to 21, without going over 21, wins the game.

It's occurred to me that some of you may wonder what a card game is doing on a site called "Scripts for Educators." :-) Believe it or not, there are some teachers who like using card games such as this to illustrate concepts such as probability, random chance, and even arithmetic skills.

In this program, we use a single "deck" of cards. On each game, the deck is created, then "shuffled" so that the cards are in a random order. The dealer's cards and player's cards are dealt from the deck, and the rest of the deck is saved to deal other cards from.

General Rules of Blackjack

The blackjack game begins with the dealer drawing two cards, one of which is face down, so you do not know what it is, and you drawing two cards. Aces can be 1 point or 11 points, whichever is most advantageous to the player.

"Face" cards such as Queen, King, and Jack are all worth 10 points.

If you draw an ace and a 10 on the first round, that is called "Blackjack" and you automatically win two and a half times your bet. (This game starts you off with 100 "credits" and bets 5 each time automatically.) The only exception is if the dealer has also drawn a blackjack, in which case, it is a "push" or a tied game.

You may click "Hit" to draw another card, "Stand" to stay with the cards you have, or "Surrender" to give up and get half your bet back.

If your cards total 10 or 11 on the first draw, you may "Double Down," meaning that you double your bet, draw only one more card, and hope to win.

The game should keep track of how many credits you have through the use of cookies.

Warning: online Blackjack can be addictive, even a simple game like this. While I was writing it, I ended up playing for several hours. You wouldn't think a silly game like this would be able to trick you into playing blackjack all day, but sometimes it can.

Have FUN!

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