Colorado Blackjack Rules of Play:

1. After two cards have been dealt to each player and to the dealer, each player must double down, surrender, split pairs, stand, draw, or make an insurance wager.
2. A player must indicate the player’s intentions by the use of hand signals made over the layout, inside the table rail (bumper).
   1. A player who has been dealt the player’s cards face down who wishes to stand may tuck the player’s cards under the player’s wager in lieu of making any other hand signal.
   2. A player whose intentions are clear by the placement of an additional wager need not make any additional hand signal.
   3. A player whose signal for action is not clear may be asked to verbally clarify the player’s intent (e.g., is an additional wager from a player’s holding a pair intended to be a double down wager or is it a wager for splitting pairs?).
3. The dealer must wait for a player’s signal of intention before dealing additional cards to the player or before moving on to the next player, unless the player’s card count is exactly twenty-one or exceeds twenty-one. If a player has not signaled the player’s intention within a reasonable period of time, the dealer shall verbally ask the player to do so. If the player fails to act within a reasonable period of time, the dealer may move on to the next player without action on the earlier player’s hand.
4. When play is at a blackjack table which is equipped with buttons or other electronic means for the player to signal the player’s intention, the player shall use the electronic feature provided.

The pickup:

1. When the point count of a player’s hand exceeds twenty-one, the player will reveal the hand and the dealer will immediately pick up the hand and place the cards in the discard rack. At the conclusion of a round of play, all cards on the layout must be picked up by the dealer so that they can be readily arranged to indicate each player’s hand in case of question or dispute. Each dealer must consistently pick up cards in only one direction during any shift. After the players’ cards have been collected, the dealer must pick up the dealer’s cards and add them to the stack of players’ cards in such a manner that the dealer’s cards will be located on the top of the discard stack when placed in the discard rack. After the pickup, all players’ cards and the dealer’s cards must be placed in the discard rack.
2. When the dealer uses an approved shuffling shoe, the shuffling shoe shall serve as the discard rack.
3. When play is at a blackjack table which uses digital cards or digital representations of cards, the electronic features of the game shall substitute for the pickup and discard of players’ cards.

Dealer’s hole card

Prohibited acts

1. No licensee or other person may remove, add, or alter any cards except as provided by this rule, and no dealer or other employee of the retail licensee shall permit any person to engage in such activity.
2. The dealer shall not look at, nor expose to any person, the face of a card before it is dealt.
3. A player may not use any person, device, object, process, or procedure, other than the player’s own unrecorded mental acuity, which is designed or intended to:
   1. Project the outcome of the game;
   2. To keep track of the cards played; or
   3. To analyze or predict the probability of the occurrence of an event relating to the game.
4. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a player from using a strategy card, except when the retail licensee has posted notice prohibiting such use, pursuant to regulation 47.1-427.
5. No dealer or pit supervisor shall advise a player about game strategy nor recommend the proper play of a hand while the player has a wager still pending on the outcome of the hand.

Point counts

Drawing of additional cards by players and dealers

1. A player may elect to draw additional cards if the player’s hard point count total is less than 21. A player with blackjack or a hard or soft point count total of 21 may not draw additional cards.
2. 1. A dealer must draw additional cards to the dealer’s hand until the dealer has a hard total of 17 or a hard or soft total of 18, 19, 20, or 21.
   2. At the discretion of the retail licensee, the dealer shall either:
      1. stand when the dealer has a soft total of 17; or
      2. be required to draw additional cards when the dealer has a soft total of 17. Thereafter, no additional cards may be drawn.
3. A dealer may not draw additional cards to the dealer’s hand, regardless of the point count, if decisions have been made on all players’ hands and the point count of the dealer’s hand will have no effect on the outcome.

Players wagering on more than one hand

Irregularities

1. When any dealing irregularity occurs, the dealer shall notify the pit supervisor, who shall direct the dealer to take the proper corrective action, and shall observe such action being taken. The pit supervisor, and not the dealer, must make all decisions concerning disputed play. If an irregularity occurs which is not described below, the pit supervisor shall determine the most appropriate action which the supervisor believes to be fair and equitable. Such action may include voiding a player’s hand by calling it a push, or voiding the hand for all players at the table by calling every hand a push. If an irregularity occurs at a blackjack table which uses digital cards or digital representations of cards and the electronic features of the game do not permit the irregularity to be handled as provided below, the pit supervisor shall determine the most appropriate action which the supervisor believes to be fair and equitable.
2. If the dealer fails to deal a first card to a player, no replacement card shall be dealt. The player may not play in that round and the player’s wager is void. The player may be included in the next deal.
3. If the dealer accidentally fails to deal a player’s second card to a player who should have received a card, but deals a card to the next player, the dealt card shall play where dealt. The player who did not receive a card shall be dealt a replacement card after all other players have received their cards. The dealer shall never back up the position of a card which has been dealt in order to give it to a preceding player.
4. When the dealer has acted on a player’s hand in a manner other than in the manner reasonably indicated by the player’s hand signal, the pit supervisor may direct the hand to be played as dealt, or may require the player to choose between the options of:
   1. Standing and playing the hand as dealt;
   2. Taking a push; or
   3. Taking additional cards after all other players have acted on their hands. The decision must be made by the player before the dealer’s hand is exposed.
5. If the dealer’s hole card is accidentally exposed to one or more players, the card shall be turned face up and exposed to all players and the game shall continue in the same manner as if the card had not been exposed.
6. A card found turned face upward in the shoe or deck may not be used in the game and must be placed in the discard rack.
7. A card drawn in error without its face being exposed must be used.
8. After the initial two cards have been dealt to each player and a card is drawn in error and exposed to the players, the card must be dealt to the players or dealer. Any player refusing to accept such a card may not have additional cards dealt to such player during the round. If the card is refused by the player and the dealer cannot use the card, the card must be burned.
9. If the dealer has a hard 17 or a higher value hand and accidentally draws a card, the card must be burned.
10. If the dealer misses dealing the first or second card to the dealer, the dealer must continue dealing the first two cards to each player, and then deal the correct number of cards to the dealer.
11. If there are insufficient cards remaining in the shoe or deck to complete a round of play, the cards in the discard rack must be shuffled and cut; and the dealer must complete the round of play.

Surrender

Proposals for variations

1. Upon written application of a retail licensee, the Director may approve variations in shuffle and deal.
2. Upon written application to the Division, a retail licensee may request variations in other rules of blackjack. Any such variations shall be reviewed by the Division and shall be brought to the Commission for approval or denial. Any approval shall be made by the Commission through the promulgation of temporary and/or permanent rules and regulations.

Procedure for accepting cash at blackjack table

1. The cash must be spread on top of the blackjack table by the dealer accepting it, in full view of the player;
2. The amount of cash must be stated by the dealer accepting it; and
3. Immediately after an equivalent value of chips, tokens, or coins has been given to the player, the cash must be taken from the top of the blackjack table and placed by the dealer into the drop box, except that quarters and half dollar coins may be placed in the chip tray.