Licensees may operate blackjack or "21" at licensed FREs according to the following requirements:
(1) Dealers must deal all cards from a dealing shoe. The deal must begin with a shoe containing at least four full decks of cards and proceed until the cards are reshuffled, withdrawn for examination, or replaced. The shoe must then be refilled with at least four decks of cards and the process repeated; and
(2) Dealers must deal cards to the players face up on the table; and
(3) Players must not pick up, shuffle, or cut the cards; and
(4) Licensees must use only standard size playing cards; and
(5) Dealers may shuffle the cards using a device, apparatus, or mechanism.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
9.46.070. WSR 06-22-051 (Order 604), § 230-09-130, filed 10/27/06, effective 1/1/08.]