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Posted by Nicolae on November 2nd, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide
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Double Exposure Blackjack is a variant of blackjack in which both the dealer’s cards are revealed to players at the start of the hand. Knowing the dealer’s hand provides significant information, and without rules modifications would be advantageous to the player.The main rules changes to provide the casino with the advantage are [...]
Posted by Nicolae on October 20th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide
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Double Attack Blackjack has very liberal blackjack rules and the option of increasing one’s wager after seeing the dealer’s up card. This game is dealt from a Spanish shoe, and blackjacks pay only even money.
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Posted by Nicolae on October 4th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide
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Chinese Blackjack is also known as 21-point, ban-nag (Cantonese) or ban-luck (Hokkien). It is a gambling game played in South East Asia which bears similarity to conventional Blackjack.The game uses one or two 52-card deck(s), playable by any number of players. One of them is to be a dealer, or they may [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 23rd, 2008 under Bingo, Blackjack, Blogs, Bonuses, Business, Casinos, Celebrities, Companies, Gambling Media, Gambling addiction, Gambling industry, Las Vegas, Legislation, News, Online Gambling, Poker, Politics, Sports Betting, Studies, Reports & Survey, Top Gambling News, UIGEA, United States, online poker
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Get real on web gambling
Kansas City Star, MO
Rick’s Gambling & Tourism column in today’s Star Business Weekly looks at the US’s untenable position in the worldwide on-line gambling industry. …
State cracks down on Net gambling
Kentucky.com, KY
By Jack Brammer FRANKFORT — Kentucky is commandeering 141 domain names of Internet gambling sites in [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 18th, 2008 under Blackjack, Card counting, Software
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Counting cards in blackjack has become substantially more difficult as a result of casino countermeasures. The most common is the use of more decks, which decreases the player’s advantage, but even in the few remaining single- and double-deck games, dealers will often shuffle prematurely or unusually frequently to defeat a suspected [...]
Posted by Nicolae on September 3rd, 2008 under Blackjack, Card counting, strategies
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American mathematician Dr. Edward O. Thorp is considered the father of card counting. His 1962 book Beat the Dealer (ISBN 0394703103) outlined various betting and playing strategies for optimal blackjack play. Although mathematically sound, some of the techniques described no longer apply as casinos took counter-measures (such as no longer dealing [...]
Posted by Nicolae on August 27th, 2008 under Blackjack, Casinos, Celebrities, Gamblers
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The MIT Blackjack Team, as the name suggests, was a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who attempted to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. The team and its successors operated from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century.
The plan and operation
Blackjack gives the house a low statistical [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 10th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide, games
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Basic strategy
As in all casino games, the house has a statistical advantage over the players that will play itself out in the long run. But because blackjack, unlike other games, has an element of player choice, players can actually reduce the casino advantage to a small percentage by playing what is known [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 9th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide, Rules, games
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Blackjack hands are scored by their point total. The hand with the highest total wins as long as it doesn’t exceed 21; a hand with a higher total than 21 is said to bust. Cards 2 through 10 are worth their face value, and face cards (jack, queen, king) are also worth [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 24th, 2008 under Blackjack, Blackjack Guide, games
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Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is one of the most popular casino card games in the world. Much of blackjack’s popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting (keeping track of which cards have been played since the last shuffle). [...]