New Zealand Gazette – 1994 – No. 114

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✨ Gaming Rules

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8.0 Rules Specific to Video Blackjack

8.1 The purpose of the game is for the player to attain with the cards dealt to the player’s hand a total of twenty-one, or as close as possible thereto without exceeding twenty-one, and yet exceeding the total of the cards dealt to the dealer.

8.2 The value of cards shall be as follows:

(a) cards from two to ten shall count as their face value,

(b) cards showing jack, queen and king shall count as ten,

(c) an ace shall count as eleven unless the relevant hand (player’s or dealer’s) would total in excess of twenty-one, in which case it shall have a value of one.

8.3 Each game utilises one deck of fifty-two cards which shall be shuffled electronically after each game.

8.4 The “dealer” shall hit on sixteen or less and stand on seventeen or more (including “soft” totals).

8.5 A player, after wagering sufficient credits and depressing the appropriate game start function, shall receive two cards face up on the initial deal.

8.6 The dealer’s hand on the initial deal shall receive two cards, one face up and the other face down.

8.7 A player obtaining a higher point score than that of the dealer without exceeding twenty one shall win and be paid at odds of one to one.

8.8 A player with a lower point score than that of the dealer, without the dealer’s score exceeding twenty-one, shall lose the credit(s) wagered.

8.9 A player’s hand and dealer’s hand of identical point value shall be deemed a tie (stand-off) and the wager on that hand returned to the player.

8.10 A player may stand on any total of not less than twelve and not exceeding twenty-one, made with two or more cards.

Player Options

8.11 A player may:

(a) wager from one credit per game up to the machine maximum, which may be as many as ninety-nine;

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