Archive for December, 2009

Will the tribal casinos of Florida really relinquish their exclusive rights to live blackjack now that the 25-year deal that the Seminole tribe signed with Florida governor Charlie Crist in 2007 has been overruled byt the state Supreme Court? It appears not.

Today we've added a new page to our Blackjack Professionals page. Our most recently added professional is Stanford Wong, who rose to such fame in the 70s and 80s that he has blackjack terms named for him. Check out the article here.

South African resort hotel chain Sun International opens a casino on the ground floor of the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria. The casino offers table games including Raise 'em Poker and Blackjack.

The modern day Robin Hood, anonymous blackjack player Robin Hood 702, is back this year to take from the casinos and give to those in need. This gentleman gambler proposes to relieve the debts of two families... by playing blackjack!

High-roller Terrance Watanabe loses the equivalent of 950 million rand in casino games including roulette and blackjack in the course of a single year, but now claims two of the casinos where he incurred these staggering losses abused his alcohol addiction and drugged him.

There's a new review up in our blackjack books section. Standford Wong's Basic Blackjack is not for learning basic strategy, but a manual that arms you with the knowledge you need to counter with basic strategy adaptation the many rule variations you may come across in different casinos when playing blackjack around the world.

The Las Vegas-based table games developer and distributer Gaming Entertainment Inc. introduced a new variation on Blackjack during the 2009 Global Gaming Expo (G2E) last month: LO BO Reverse Blackjack, a version of blackjack were the key number isn't 21 but 12.

There's a new page up on our Blackjack Professionals page. This time we've taken a look at the history of the notorious MIT Blackjack Team. This team of MIT students and alumni took the casinos for millions in the 80s and 90s. Read more about these professional players.