Free Time Guidance

Do you want to bring the excitement of Las Vegas into your home? You can host your very own Blackjack game. All it takes is a little education along with some good planning to ensure that you and your friends will have a great time.

You need to put some thought in who will be your dealer. The dealer is a very important part of the game. A good dealer can add a lot to a game and a bad dealer can make a game not very much fun at all. If the dealer gloats or broods when he is winning and loosing, other players will begin to loose interest in the game.

For your blackjack game, you can start with a few simple items, or you can “go all out” to really create the energy of a casino blackjack game. A black jack table or other playing surface, such as a felt layout, is one very important item. For the Vegas feel, you also might want to consider card shufflers, dealer shoes, and discard holders. Don’t forget the poker chips and playing cards.

Starting with the table, you can go completely economy with a simple felt layout for around $15 or a blackjack table top as low as $50. However if you prefer to start with a real table with padding under the felt and some sort of legs, these are available anywhere from $150 to $800. There will also be some shipping cost.

Setting up like a casino will mean that you will use more than one deck of cards. Many casinos use 6 and 8 deck shoes. Black jack supplies are available for you to use multiple decks of cards at home. In order to deal from several decks of cards you will need a dealer shoe. These are available in sizes from 2 decks to 8 decks.

A discard holder will take care of your used cards until you are ready to shuffle them all again. You may purchase 2 deck, 4 deck, 6 deck or 8 deck discard holders. This is certainly worth the small investment of $8 to $14, depending on the size.

Whether you are considering discard holders, dealer shoes, automatic card shufflers or all three, you can’t go wrong. All of these have minimal expense and can make a real difference in your game. Your choices are nearly endless when it comes to choosing blackjack supplies for your home game.

Some additional accessories to make your game smooth are cut cards, black jack table trays, a dealer visor, and of course poker chips. The cut card should be the same size as the playing cards you purchase (poker or bridge size) and is used to mark the shuffle point in the dealer shoe. A table tray is for the dealer to organize his/her chips. A dealer visor adds flair and cuts down on glare from lights.