Pontoon

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:09:58 +0000

Pontoon can be found in a lot of online casinos and extremely often only the best online casinos at that. Furthermore it is a card game just like poker but is really comparable with blackjack. Pontoon has mainly the same rules as a regular blackjack sound, but has some small differences in the rules. Pontoon is played with eight standard 52-card decks. The cards all have the same value as in blackjack. And just like blackjack, you will go bust when you pass the 21. The best hand possible is pontoon, which consists of an ace and a card with a worth of 10. The second highest hand in pontoon, is any hand that consists out of 5 cards. But this is very difficult to get, because most hands are bust before they get 5 cards. The other hands are ranked on their total point worth. The highest hand up to 21 wins.

Every round starts with the dealer giving each player two cards face up, and himself two cards with one face down and one face up. This is where the first difference from blackjack is. The dealer then looks at his cards, to check if he has a pontoon or not. When the dealer has pontoon he leak out his cards and collects all wagers. When the dealer has pontoon, he automatically always wins.

After the round is over the next round starts. The round goes on when the dealer does not have pontoon. Every player must decide if he hits another card or stands. A player can stand on every hand that has a worth of at least 15, or on a five-card hand.

Splitting is only allowed for cards of duplicate rank. So whether you have two tens, you can split it into two hands. When a player gets 21 points with a two-card hand later he split aces, it is considered to be a pontoon. Once all players made the decision to stand or if they went bust, the dealer leak out his hand, and can hit or stand to try and destroy the other players. The dealer has to keep hitting cards until he either passes 17, has a five-card hand, or gets a soft 17, which is an ace and a six.