Play īlackjack Switch is played with four, six or eight 52-card decks which are shuffled together. Further games developed by Hall that are found in Las Vegas casinos include Free Bet Blackjack, The game has since become widely available in offline casinos in Las Vegas and around the world and is offered online only by Playtech casinos. This modification led to the game being installed in Four Queens in December 2003. After this Hall modified the game to include the ‘Push on 22’ rule in 2003. Blackjack Switch was installed in Harvey’s Casino in Iowa in February 2001.
Hall then developed this idea and exhibited the game at the G2E conference in Las Vegas in October 2000. History īlackjack Switch was conceived after Hall - who was a card counter at the time - became frustrated at being dealt 2 weak hands when playing Blackjack that could be improved dramatically if the top two cards were allowed to be switched. Natural blackjacks are paid 1:1 instead of the standard 3:2, and a dealer hard 22 pushes all player hands except a natural.
It is based on blackjack, but differs in that two hands, rather than one, are dealt to each playing position, and the player is initially allowed to exchange ('switch') the top two cards between hands. Blackjack Switch is a casino gambling game invented by Geoff Hall and patented in 2009.