Monday, January 21, 2013

Hitting Blackjack

The object of the card game known as "Blackjack" is to get to 21 or as close as possible to it.

Normally, if your two initially-dealt cards add up to 21, you have a blackjack and can no longer do anything for that roundm (Why would you? Barring someone else having blackjack, you've already won.)

However, you occasionally have that oddball player who wants to be hit with another card for some strange reason. They could be new at the game and not know that a blackjack is an (almost-guaranteed) automatic victory. They could be drunk and not realize they're screwing themselves over. They could be some radical crazy-head who decides to take the ace in their possession and treat it as a "1" instead of an "11."

Or, for those of us still following along with the metaphor: they could be someone wanting more than just a victory... more than an easy win from a chancy gamble. They want it all AND THEN SOME... ...and when you think about it, SO DO I.

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