What's the lowest you can stick on in blackjack?

Pontoon AKA Twenty-one, vingt-et-un, blackjack (beware: casino rules for blackjack are very different) ... Stick: Ask for no more cards, because you are happy with the total (although you cannot stick on less than 15). Twist: Ask the banker to turn over the next card face up. More items... •

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AKA Twenty-one, vingt-et-un, blackjack (beware: casino rules for blackjack are very different)

Decks One

Players Any number

Aim To get closer to 21 than the banker, often

Difficulty 2/5

How to play

Deal out cards face-up until someone gets a jack. That player then becomes the banker, and will remain so until another player gets a pontoon. Now decide on your maximum and minimum bets. For immediate purposes we'll say the minimum bet is one carrot, the maximum is five (far more nutritious and sensible than risking real money). What the non-bankers are trying to do is assemble a better hand than the banker - which is to say, cards totalling as close to 21 as possible without going over. Ace counts as one or 11 points, as the holder prefers; the 10 and court cards are worth 10; the rest have face value. The best possible hand is a two-card 21, or pontoon: an ace plus a royal card or 10. Next is a five-card trick: five cards of any total value (under or equal to 21, obviously). The banker always deals and starts by giving one card face down to each player, including herself. The other players look at their cards, then bet anything between the minimum and maximum agreed amounts. The banker now gives them all a second card. Starting with the player to banker's left, each player has several choices; if you have a pontoon, turn your ace face up, place it on top of your other card and pass the turn. Otherwise, you may ... Stick: Ask for no more cards, because you are happy with the total (although you cannot stick on less than 15). Twist: Ask the banker to turn over the next card face up. You can do this up to three times, or until you are bust. Buy a card: Pay a further stake to receive another face-down card from the banker. You can do this up to three times. You can opt to twist after buying, but never to buy after twisting. Split: If you hold two cards of the same value. In this case you turn up both cards, with a bet on each; the banker deals one more face down to each, and you play both hands as normal.

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At the end of this phase, each player will either have announced a pontoon, gone bust, or stuck with cards adding up to between 15 and 21 (or a five-card trick - you can't hold any more than five). Now the banker turns over her cards, and sticks or twists until satisfied (a banker can stick on any total, but can't buy or split). The other players turn over their cards and all bets are settled. In the event of a tie, the banker wins, so a banker's pontoon is unbeatable. Pontoons are worth double stakes both ways. There's no shuffling between deals unless someone had a pontoon that round.

How to spice it up

Some people, in the name of fairness, have the bank change hands every few deals. But where's the fun in fairness?

There are all sorts of minor rules variations: some deal the non-bankers' second cards face up; some allow betting to begin only after the second card is dealt; some allow the banker to look at her first card and then call for double stakes (but this tends to increase their advantage further). Certain factions maintain that you can only split aces; others that you can only split anything but aces. Some players allow "royal pontoons" - the decidedly unregal hand of three sevens, which beats even a pontoon.

Top tips

As a rule, non-bankers should stick with scores of 17 and above. On 15 or 16, twist but don't buy. Always split aces (some say eights too); but 10s, jacks, queens and kings are more dangerous - you'll probably win with one and lose with the other.

How evil will I become?

If a player runs out of money (or carrots), just don't be tempted to accept IOUs, car keys or any other root vegetables.

As seen on screen: cards in the movies

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From Brad Pitt teaching Hollywood bratpackers how to play poker in Ocean's Eleven (2001) to Daniel Craig's Bond in Casino Royale (2006) taking on his adversary at Texas hold 'em - back to poker-playing robots in the 70s cult sci-fi classic Silent Running, cards have always been a potent part of Hollywood films. The card-game scene functions as a standalone set-piece, delivering tension, thrills and glamour, and it's an efficient way of showing how cool, or otherwise, the characters are under pressure. It can be a little bit of low-key moralising about the dangers of greed or money, or it can show the cardplayer as rough-rider, risk-taker and all-round glamour king. The first great movie in this vein, arguably, was Fritz Lang's Dr Mabuse: The Gambler (1922); the shadowy villain was the lawless shark of the casinos and the card tables. Elsewhere, however, Hollywood tended to portray the cardplayer more leniently, as the anti-hero. Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp's poker scenes in various westerns laid down the template for the cardplayer as the cowboy anti-hero. Movies like The Cincinatti Kid (1965), The Sting (1973) and California Split (1974) showed that the spirit of the wild west with golden-hearted rogues existed inside every gambling joint. John Dahl's Rounders (1998) and Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight (1997) showed the dark existential travails of the professional cardplayer, and Mike Hodges's Croupier (1998) showed the persistent fascination with blackjack, the one game in which the player really can beat the dealer and take the house. More recently, Curtis Hanson's Lucky You (2007) reflected poker's massive new popularity and respectability in the online age. Making movies itself is a gamble - negotiating with actors, producers and distributors is a deadpan game of bluff and counter-bluff - and the public's taste being such a mystery, it seems like a game of chance. Perhaps these are more reasons why card games continue to pop up in the movies.

Peter Bradshaw

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