$1 Blackjack Tables at Atlantic City Casino Brings in Heavy Traffic

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Atlantic City casinos are looking for blackjack traffic and appear to be trying everything they can think of to get their blackjack tables full. After introducing $5 blackjack tables which failed to draw in more players, AC casinos appear to be dropping their buy-ins even further to $1 and $2.

Recently, Trump Marina Hotel Casino launched a promo for blackjack enthusiasts, which is definitely achieving its purpose.

The Trump Marina Casino has only two one-dollar blackjack tables, which it had introduced on an experimental basis. Later, it realized that it needed a third table and applied for the same at the Casino Control Commission of New Jersey.

Back in the early 90s, two-dollar blackjack tables enjoyed great popularity in Atlantic City; however, they were later discarded for the benefit of high rollers. Early this year, two-dollar tables were brought back by Resorts Atlantic City owing to the introduction of a blackjack variant, which required players to bet 25 cents and $2 – $5 per hand. Based on their success, Trump Marina later installed special one-dollar blackjack tables for low-stakes players.

Today, the authorities of Trump Marino Casino say that the one-dollar blackjack tables rake in a profit of $1,100 per day on week days and $1,500 at weekends. Some blackjack enthusiasts say that the casinos of New Jersey will soon introduce more low-stakes blackjack tables. The appearance of 50-cent blackjack tables, therefore, might not be surprising.

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Blackjack Winner Spree at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

The Mohegan Sun gaming center at Pocono Downs was recently launched but has already seen several blackjack winners who beat the dealer with lucky hands. The new gaming center and its blackjack tables have created a lot of excitement among residents of the community and they are already flocking to the tables there.

Susan McFadden and Robert Stefanidis, two blackjack players from that neighborhood, were among the first two players to get lucky at the Mohegan Sun. Currently the gaming center has about 62 table games including blackjack, roulette, craps and poker and expects to add another 20 games next month.

Susan McFadden, who is 64 years old, won a new Mercedes when she scored a 19 on her blackjack cards and beat the dealer. This lucky resident won the car even before the Mohegan Sun could open when she played at a small kiosk in the area.

Robert Stefanidis did not win a car but got a grand monetary reward of $25,000 instead. He opted for the money since he had already purchased a car recently. His online blackjack hand was ranked at 20.

A few more winners who scored at the gaming tables at the Mohegan Sun took home $5,000 each.

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Intercasino Launches New Enterprising Multi-Hand Video Blackjack Game

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Intercasino, one of the best online casinos recently launched a new video blackjack game for its players. This game of Multi-Hand Video Blackjack gives players the advantage of playing up to five different blackjack hands at one time and pays 3:2, which players are sure to benefit from. Players can also opt to play a single hand of blackjack, three hands or go for the maximum of five hands.

According to the game’s rules, blackjack dealers are required to stand on both hard and soft 17s. The Multi-Hand Video Blackjack game at InterCasino also allows players to go against 50 dealer hands, which is where the game differs from all other blackjack offerings on the internet and gives players three to 250 results from each round of play.

The betting restrictions on this game start from £0.10 and can go as high as £50.00 for each game of 50 dealer hands. The betting limits do not change much for smaller hand amounts that range from 3 to 5 to 10 and players will be able to bet as little as £0.25 to as much as £50.00 for every game result. This allows players to wager as much as £12,500 per round if they go in for maximum bets.

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Jeffrey Ma Launches New Blackjack Book Applying Game Tips To Business

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Master blackjack player, Jeffrey Ma, who was the real life inspiration for the character Ben in the movie “21” recently wrote a new book where he took blackjack principles and applied it to business, impressing both the blackjack community and the business sector. The book also contains several anecdotes on Ma’s blackjack games and experiences along with blackjack tips. Jeffrey Ma’s latest book on blackjack called The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business makes for easy reading and can be understood by any layperson.

Some of the blackjack tips that Ma suggests in his book includes tips pt players to use the data they have to study their past performances which he claims will predict future results. He advocates discipline to businesspeople such as is used by card counters. Another important blackjack and business tip was to play for the long run. Some blackjack specific tips include never to take insurance and to always split Aces.

Jeffrey Ma first caught the eye of the media when Ben Mezrich wrote a book called “Bringing Down the House” about a team of blackjack players who used mathematics to beat house odds. Also, the blackjack team in the movie 21 was based on a real group of college students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was led by Jeffrey Ma.

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Feds Approve Seminole’s Latest Agreement for Blackjack in Florida

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

The federal government recently approved the Seminole’s tribe agreement to host Blackjack games in Florida. The tribes had been contesting to have table games like blackjack allowed in Florida casinos for a long time now and this decision has been greeted with great enthusiasm from the blackjack community in Florida.

This agreement puts an end to all legal conjecture of having blackjack games in Seminole Casinos created by the earlier rejection of the contract that the tribes signed with Governor Crist in 2008.

After the contract was rejected, the tribes had continued to run these blackjack games in a few select casinos while attempting to get the government to give them permission to host blackjack in Florida’s casinos. And, although the tribe had an internal sign off for permission they had to face some problems from lawmakers. The blackjack games hosted by casinos run by the Seminole tribes were supported by the United States Department of Interior Affairs and were hence allowed to continue without interruption despite opposition from some radical state officials.

The current agreement will allow the casinos to host blackjack games and earn the state $1 billion dollars. Want to play online blackjack? Check out the top USA Blackjack Casino Sites.

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Pennsylvania’s Blackjack Games Better than Las Vegas Blackjack Offerings?

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Recent news reports reveal that playing blackjack in Pennsylvania may work out to be far more lucrative for players than the games offered at the Las Vegas Casinos. This is because the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has established new rules for blackjack games that improve player advantage.

The Pennsylvania blackjack games offer players the benefit of a small house edge of 0.4% or even less. According to the Wizard of Odds’ blackjack house-edge calculator, this edge is superior to most blackjack games offered by the casinos in Vegas. In fact, competing against a 0.4 % house edge puts the odds in favour of the player and is almost a guaranteed win for blackjack players in Pennsylvania.

Players who prefer roulette or slots – games which are known to have an approximate house edge of 5.26% and 8% respectively – should consider the blackjack games in Pennsylvania if they want to make money while playing at a casino.

The new blackjack rules also permit dealers to stand on a soft 17, unlike Vegas casinos where dealers are allowed to hit on a soft 17. This rule has brought down the Pennsylvania’s house edge for the blackjack games by 0.22 percent.

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Unemployed Teacher Finds Work as Blackjack Dealer

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Marcia Fuqua, a 48 year old ex-teacher found work as a blackjack dealer, after she was laid off by the school in DC where she worked as a physical education and health teacher.

Fuqua lost her job in the fall along with several others from the school and soon became yet another unemployment statistic, until she decided to get a job that would give her the upper hand.

The ex-teacher quit looking to schools and the educational field for employment and turned instead to one of the most promising industries today. The gaming industry has shown a strong growth rate despite the economic crisis and Fuqua decided to find a job in this sector.

She then took up training for a course of two months to become a blackjack dealer, which appears to have paid off when she landed a job as a blackjack and poker dealer at the Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races.

Fuqua claims to have always been fascinated with blackjack dealers and believes that this is a great job situation. Fuqua initially had a bit of trouble placing the chips properly in the table as it required nimble fingers, but soon discovered that being a blackjack dealer was possible once she got the hang of it. She claimed her problem was that she was trying too hard.

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Millionaire Casino Offers Thousand Dollar Weekly Blackjack Tournaments

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Millionaire Casino, one of the top online gaming sites for blackjack players, recently gained attention for its blackjack offerings which feature weekly blackjack tournaments with very generous prizes.

Players looking for blackjack tournaments with amateur to medium skilled players should look to the weekly line up of tourneys hosted at Millionaire Casino. The casino features two online US blackjack tournaments per week for its members and sees a lot of player traffic to these events. Both the weekly tourneys have low buy-ins and generous prizes that amount to thousands of dollars.

The Weekend Blackjack Classic is held over the weekend from Friday to Sunday and has a buy-in of $10 with a $5000 prize to be won. The second weekly tourney is the Head2Head event which takes place on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. This event has an even lower buy-in of $5 and has the pot amount set as the prize.

Millionaire casino also has other interesting offers for its blackjack players that include a $5000 welcome bonus, loyalty points to be won and exciting blackjack games. Some of the games featured here include Progressive Blackjack, European Blackjack, Vegas Strip Blackjack and Perfect Pairs Blackjack.

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Rushmore Casino Has Welcome, Weekly and Weekend Bonuses for Blackjack Players

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Rushmore Casino is an online casino powered by Realtime Gaming known for its variety of blackjack games and promotions, and as a result enjoys good player traffic. The casino also has a special set of bonuses exclusive to its blackjack players.

Online Blackjack players at Rushmore Casino will be eligible for a Blackjack Welcome Bonus, which gives players a whopping 200% match bonus on their initial deposit up to a sum of $1000. While most other gaming portals offer a 100% general bonus, Rushmore Casino is one of the few gaming portals to offer such a large blackjack bonus sum. And, if this was not enough, players will be pleased to note that this blackjack bonus is not one of those promotions tied up in impossible play through requirements. New blackjack players will only have to meet a 20x playthrough requirement, which can easily be accomplished with the selection of blackjack games on offer at the site.

New members can also expect to be pleased with the site’s superior customer service and promotions. Some of the exciting blackjack promotions at Rushmore include its weekly bonuses which give players a 50% match up to sum of $5,000. The site also offer weekend bonuses called Weekend Bonanzas.

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Casino to Use $11.6 Million Worth of Smart Chips for Blackjack Games

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Meadows Casino, a gaming centre in Washington County recently announced that it would be using Smart Chip technology in its blackjack games, pending the decision of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. A ruling in favour of the Smart Chip will see the casino replace $11.6 million of its blackjack chips with Smart Chips when it introduces its new table games in July. The casino will use 184,500 chips that will be formatted with Radio Frequency Identification to prevent counterfeiting.

These blackjack Smart Chips are casino chips embedded with a microprocessor which will keep tabs on the amount of chips used at the blackjack tables. The Smart chips are twice as expensive as regular chips and will curb the opportunity to use counterfeit chips. Although, Meadows is only the second gaming enterprise in the Pennsylvania territory to introduce this technology, the use of Smart Chips is expected to become a trend soon to be followed by other casinos all over the US.

Sean Sullivan, VP of Meadows Casino, stated “In every one of these little chips, there’s a micro-processor, micro-chip. These are sophisticated chips, twice as expensive as a normal chip you’d find at a casino. We’re excited about the technological advances it gives us as well as the protection opportunities.”

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