Indiana Administrative Code
Title 68 - INDIANA GAMING COMMISSION
Article 10 - CONDUCT OF GAMING
Rule 2 - Blackjack
Section 2-1 - General provisions
Universal Citation: 68 IN Admin Code 2-1
Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 4-33-4-1; IC 4-33-4-2; IC 4-33-4-3
Affected: IC 4-33
Sec. 1.
(a) This rule applies to all riverboat licensees.
(b) Blackjack shall be conducted in conformance with this rule.
(c) Riverboat licensees may only offer the game of blackjack on a table and layout that are in compliance with 68 IAC 14.
(d) The following definitions apply throughout this rule:
(1) "Blackjack" means an
ace and second card with a point value of ten (10) dealt as the initial two (2)
cards to a player or the dealer. Blackjack may not include an ace and card with
a point value of ten (10) dealt to a player who has split the first
two
(2) cards dealt to the
player.
(2) "Burn" means the act of
placing a card face downward in the discard rack if it is not to be utilized in
play in accordance with this rule.
(3) "Deal" means the distribution of the
playing cards among the players and the dealer.
(4) "Dealer" means the occupational licensee
of the riverboat licensee who is responsible for dealing the cards at the
blackjack table.
(5) "Doubling
down" means to make an additional wager, identical to or less than the player's
original wager, on the first two (2) cards dealt to the player or the first two
(2) cards of any split pair.
(6)
"Even money wager" means a bet placed by a player when the player has a
blackjack and the exposed card dealt to the dealer is an ace. A player who
makes an even money wager shall be paid at odds of at least one (1) to one
(1).
(7) "Exposed card" means the
card held by a dealer that is seen by the other players.
(8) "Hard total" means the total point count
of a hand that contains no aces or that contains aces that are counted as a
value of one (1).
(9) "Hole card"
means a card held by the dealer or player that is unseen by the other players
or the dealer unless otherwise authorized by this rule.
(10) "Insurance wager" means a bet placed by
a player when the exposed card dealt to the dealer is an ace. The insurance
wager wins if the dealer's hole card is a king, queen, jack, or ten (10). An
insurance wager loses if the dealer's hole card is an ace or a two (2) through
nine (9).
(11) "Peek machine" means
a device that allows the dealer to see the hole card to determine if the dealer
has a blackjack.
(12) "Soft total"
means the total point count of a hand that contains an ace that is counted as a
value of eleven (11).
(13)
"Splitting pairs" means a wager in which the first two (2) cards a player
receives are identical in value. The player must make a wager on the second
hand in an amount equal to the player's original wager.
(14) "Surrender" means an option whereby the
player surrenders the player's hand by forfeiting one-half (1/2) of the
player's original wager if the dealer does not have a blackjack.
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