QUESTION: I have been counseled that a surrender bet is a bet that favors the house in blackjack. Seems to me that in selected situations, a surrender move is an advantage. What is your opinion? — Dirk D.
ANSWER: You were wrongly counseled, Dirk. Surrender, both early and late, is a rules option allowed in certain casinos where a player March give up half the wager after seeing
Last week’s column dealt with poker tournaments. Two other types of tournaments are frequently available at casinos: blackjack and slots.
Blackjack
The first thing to know if you are entering a blackjack tournament is that it is different that playing on a regular table. Players at a table are trying to win against the house. When you play in a tournament, you are playing
Saunter into a casino these days, and you probably will find two kinds of blackjack games: the traditional, sit-at-a-table-with-other-humans-and-actual-cards variety and other computer-based games that use virtual cards, virtual chips and virtual dealers.
This latter, dubbed “video blackjack,” was designed to democratize blackjack, enabling gamblers to bet as little as 20 cents per hand (or as much as $100).
The games also accommodate only one player at a time, making them feel
When Mariana Stebbins came from her native Brazil to attend UConn in 2025, like many students she needed to find a job. What she found was chance to deal blackjack at one of Connecticut's nearby casinos.
Stebbins heard about the job through a program Mohegan Sun conducts with other countries to help provide immigrants with work. The money, flexible schedule and proximity to UConn seemed ideal for a student.
She soon enrolled
Bigger giveaways. More blackjack. Poker like it has never been played here before. Maybe even a new hotel or two.
This is what changes now that Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday has signed a bill reducing the slot tax, adding no-limit poker and ending a 30-year staredown with the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
“Everything opens up,” said Steven J. Wolf
According to a press release sent out on March 8, a new gaming room outside Bar Louie is being built to hold approximately 300 slot machines, plus a table games
Gov. Charlie Crist quietly signed into law Wednesday a landmark, $1 billion gambling agreement with the Seminole Indian tribe that legalizes blackjack at five of its casinos.
The governor didn’t call the customary news conference for such major legislation, instead inviting the two primary legislative sponsors — Rep. Bill Galvano and Sen. Dennis Jones — to witness his signature.
The agreement authorizes blackjack at five Seminole casinos for five years
As Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd (“We’re Doing God’s Work”) Blankfein, Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Toure, and other bank executives paraded before the Senate Permanent Subcommitee on Investigations to proclaim that their honor is as pure as the driven snow, even Nevada’s Republican Senator John Ensign–who had an affair with his Chief of Staff’s wife and then paid the couple off to keep it quiet–took moral offense when several Senators compared
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Playing online blackjack is one of the most well liked and well played game online. Citizens of the world find it very enjoyable and a lot of fun to play. It can become a very skilled game.
Some say blackjack started in France around the seventeen hundreds. Vingt-En_Un (meaning twenty one in French) was the original blackjack. The rules
