Blackjack Doubling Down

It’s twice as lucrative, or twice as costly. Doubling down in blackjack can be a risky business. There are some people who use every opportunity to double down, whatever their hand. They don’t tend to be rich people, for precisely that reason. It is an option only available as the first decision of a hand, and …

Rule Variations In Blackjack

While slot machines and online slots in virtual casinos are the perhaps the most accessible of casino games one of the most widely played table games in the world is Blackjack. It’s easy to learn rules, the fast pace of the game, the low house edge and the fact that there is an element of …

MIT Blackjack Team

Anyone who knows anything about Blackjack will have heard, at least in passing, about the MIT Blackjack Team. The team were a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard Business School, Harvard University and other leading colleges who used card-counting techniques to beat casinos at blackjack. They …

Hit & Stand Blackjack Guide

Here is a simply Blackjack ‘Hit’ and ‘Stand’ guide, you can print this out and keep it by your computer if you’re playing blackjack online or even playing at the casinos. It’s shows the correct play for every type of hand you might encounter when playing Blackjack, Just click the image below, it will open …

How To Play Blackjack

Blackjack is a game where you play against the dealer independently of other players, and the aim of the game, and why it is sometimes known as ‘21’, is to defeat the dealer by drawing cards whose sum are more than the dealers sum or add up to 21, when the dealers sum of cards …

Counting Cards

Card counting has been around since the 1950’s but wasn’t popularised as a method of beating the Blackjack table until the 1960’s when a mathematics professor by the name of Dr. Edward O. Thorp published a book called ‘Beat the Dealer’. The book highlighted that it was possible for a clever player to actually gain a …