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Definition of Terms for Blackjack: The following definitions apply to all the rules of blackjack and to all games of blackjack conducted by licensees:
- “Blackjack” means an ace and an additional card with a point value of ten, dealt as the initial two cards to a player or the dealer.
- “Burn” means to remove one or more cards from the top of the deck or the front of a shoe and place it, or them, in the discard rack.
- “Button” means an object, which, in tournament play only, is used to indicate the dealing and betting order among the players.
- “Deal” means the distribution of the playing cards to the players and the dealer.
- “Dealer” means the person responsible for dealing the cards at a blackjack table.
- “Hard total” or “hard point count total” means the total point count of a hand which contains no aces or which contains aces that are each counted as one in value;
- “Hole card” means a card dealt face down to the dealer which remains face down until all the players other than the dealer have received all the cards they have requested.
- “Layout” or “table layout” means the felt, cloth, or other material covering the playing surface of a blackjack table.
- “Shoe” means a dealing device that has a compartment in which two or more decks of cards are stacked and which permits cards to be dealt one at a time.
- “Shuffling shoe” means an electro-mechanical device which continuously reshuffles the cards and/or which randomly inserts previously dealt and discarded cards back into the card stack, and which is integrated with a card shoe which holds the continuously changing card stack.
- “Soft total” or “soft point count total” means the total point count of a hand containing one or more aces when one ace is counted as eleven in value.
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