Although you won’t come across as many blackjack tournaments as you will poker tournaments, they do exist and they are in plenty supply if you are looking in the right places. Online blackjack tournaments are rife on Fortune Lounge Group,…
Category: Strategy
How to Cheat at Blackjack
Although we don’t condone most of them, there are many methods you can deploy to get the upper hand in a game of blackjack. This game has been around for a long time and throughout its history there have been…
The Different Card Counting Systems
We have already looked at the basics of counting cards and discussed just how easy it can be. This is not something that requires a huge mathematical brain. The simplest of card counting systems are as easy as adding and…
Understanding the Basics: Card Counting
Many first-time players seem to believe that card counting requires Rain Man levels of mathematical prowess, that the goal is to essentially work out the placing of every single card in the deck and to basically guess what the next…
Understanding the Basics: Variants Part 3
This is the final part of a three-part article in which we have looked at the biggest and most common blackjack variants out there, as well as a few lesser variants that can be found both online and offline. There…
Understanding the Basics: Variants Part 2
There are many more variants of blackjack that we can list in the space of 2 or 3 articles. Some of them are big, played in many casinos. Some of them are small and relatively rare, played in just 1…
Understanding the Basics: Variants Part 1
As we return to the “Basics” series of articles, we will look at the many variants that make up the game of Blackjack. This is one of the areas that can confuse first-time players, but don’t worry, as it is…
Understanding the Basics: Online Blackjack
Once more we return to this “basics” series of articles which aims to explain the essentials of blackjack and to increase the number of players trying their hand at this game every year. In this article we’ll focus on online…
Understanding the Basics: The Table Layout
There are many nervous gamblers out there, people that want to get involved with a game of blackjack, but have never set foot into a casino and don’t want to make a stupid mistake that humiliates them. The truth is…
Understanding the Basics: Blackjack Etiquette
In this series of articles we aim to push the basics of blackjack so that first-time players don’t need to feel worried about going into a casino and playing blackjack for the first time. In this particular article we’ll focus…