How to Double Down in Blackjack

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Carlos Ramos Jr. and I'm coming to you on behalf of Expert Village and today we're talking about the game of black jack. Now we are just going over hit and stand, you know the hit here and to stand you don't want anymore cards. Now there's another option that you can do and it's called double down. Now when you're hitting, you get as many cards as you want as long as you don't go over 21 or you don't stand. The other option you can do is called a double down, now when you're playing for money this means a lot more. A double down means you want one card, okay and that one card is going to determine your faith and that's it. You double your bet on that one card, so if you're playing a $5 chip you put down another chip and you're going to try to double your money back, alright. So that's a double down, we'll go over when the best time to double down, why you'll want to double down and the best opportunities to double down on. But just know that's what double down means and there's no hand signal for double down, you just have to put your bet down and say to the dealer, double down. "