Posts Tagged ‘Tournaments’

Counting on Cruises

June 18, 2009, Posted by Irfan at 10:13 am

It has been my experience that cruise ships are generally oblivious to counters. I have been on several of these floating resorts that have made no attempt whatsoever to discourage blatant card-casers. I have often stood around the tables, jumping in and out of games with bets of any size, or simply asking to be [...]

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Top Ten Hands

June 18, 2009, Posted by Irfan at 9:44 am

According to Revere’s Playing Blackjack As a Business (1996), page 86, the house advantage in a single-deck game when no Aces remain to be dealt is 2.59%. On page 70 of the same blog, the top ten two-card beginning totals that win the most money are, in order:
Revere does not reveal how his statistics were [...]

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Tournaments

April 17, 2009, Posted by Irfan at 9:22 pm

Annual full-fledged blackjack tournaments that involve a thousand or more players competing for prizes of $50,000 and up are not uncommon in Las Vegas. More popular, however, are the numerous mini-tournaments that are held daily. Practically every large casino now hosts these scaled-down attractions, which appeal to novice blackjack players and seasoned veterans alike. A [...]

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