If there is any situation that beginner blackjack players want help to it is when they are dealt aces, or bullets as they are also commonly referred to as. Some blackjack players have different ideas as to what to do with a pair of bullets / aces, but most of them tend to agree, it is a great time to get some extra money out on the table by splitting them.

A pair of aces equals two or twelve, also known as a soft twelve, hitting and receiving a ten-valued card gives you a hard twelve and hitting and receiving an other ten-valued card gives you twenty-two. Now, if you had chosen to split your aces and received those same two ten-valued cards, you would have two twenty-one hands, not two blackjacks. The reason these would not be two blackjacks, is because a blackjack or a natural is when you have an ace and a ten-valued card as your first two cards, or initial two cards. When you split your aces, and receive a ten-valued card on your first ace, that ten-valued card would be considered your third card, or hit card.

In most casinos, when you split your aces, you are only allowed one card per ace, except in some casinos where when you split your aces and receive a third ace, you may be given the option to split your aces again.

To know when it is best to split your aces, it is best to find and buy yourself a basic strategy card for blackjack, which can be found in a casino gift shop or on the Internet for very little money and is a very good way to learn more about the right moves to make at the right time, under the right circumstances. It also strongly advised to play the same way each time, that way you are not telling the story of when you deviated from your strategy and lost huge money.

I always split my aces when the dealer is showing an up card of a two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten-valued card or ace. That's correct, no matter what the up card the dealer is showing, I split my aces. Sometimes I get a ten-valued card on one and a small one on the other and end up breaking even, sometimes I get a ten-valued card on both, sometimes I get two ugly cards, but in the end, the point is to hopefully come out ahead, more times than you do not when splitting your aces.

You may also find yourself about to split your aces and hear some blackjack player at the table start to try and talk you out of it, saying that there has just been too many ten-valued cards dealt and there couldn't possibly be any left. It is important to remember, it does not always take a twenty-one to win the game, a twenty-point hand is still a pretty good hand, if you catch a nine.