Unlike Twenty One there is a new terminology in Black Jack: so called soft total and hard total. Ace can be worth 1 or 11 points at discretion. The cards 2 to 10 are worth their face value, while Jack, Queen and King are counted for 10 points.
The card values in Black Jack are slightly different from Twenty One. The minimum and maximum bet is usually shown near the Black Jack table. Each player wins or loses their own individual bet. If there are more players playing Black Jack, it may happen (or it happens actually) that the dealer beats some player(s) and loses to the other(s) at the same time. When both player and dealer have the same total value of their cards, it is a tie and the bet is returned to the player. If the dealer goes bust he or she loses against all the players who have not exceeded 21. If the player exceeds 21 – he or she is over or bust – and loses instantly regardless of the total value of the dealers’ cards. The goal of the player (or the players as there can be more players playing simultaneously) in Black Jack is to beat the dealer by the total value of their cards approaching 21 as much as possible and, at the same time, by having the higher total value of the cards than the dealer. There is a related game known as Twenty One (21). Black Jack is played with one or more 52-card decks (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A suited in four colors) such as Poker for example.
