Archive for January, 2010

Live online blackjack is so popular players must often vie for seats, and casinos are left with unattractive options to reduce the number of players. Visionary iGaming now launches an live online BJ game which can house infinite players at a single table.

Today we've added a new book to our blackjack books section. Check out our review of Ken Uston's The Big Player, the book that was the first to reveal the secrets of blackjack team strategies, which the MIT team would later use to take the casinos for millions.

Paul Bahbout was deeply in debt until he won the 200,000 pound (2,5 million rand) jackpot in a blackjack tournament at Maxims Casino in the UK. He won this money on an extremely unlikely 1 pound side-bet.

Today we've added a new page to our blackjack professionals page. Keith Taft was an electronics expert who invented, tested and applied many concealed card counting, shuffle tracking, and network devices that helped blackjack players and teams gain an edge on casinos.

A border war appears to be in progress as state governments in the USA try to counter their budget gaps by loosening the restrictions on gambling to increase state revenues. The big news is Pennsylvania's decision to legalize table games including poker and blackjack, but other states vote to keep up.

Today we've added a new review to our blackjack books section to accompany our newest blackjack professionals page on Ken Uston. Check out out review on Ken Uston's classic book, part manual, part autobiography, Million Dollar Blackjack.

Check out the latest profile on our blackjack professionals page: Ken Uston became famous as a big player and master of disguise in the mid 70s and mid 80s. He was banned from many casinos, took them to court, and wrote a number of books on his experiences.

Everybody else might find themselves inconvenienced by the snowstorms that have hit various regions worldwide, but to the online casinos cancelled flights and inaccessible roads get 2010 off to a good start. Revised Christmas plans in the affected areas appear to include a lot more online gambling than usual for this time of the year.

Since we recently posted an article on Stanford Wong on our blackjack professionals page, we also decided there ought to be a review his most famous book, Professional Blackjack, available on our books page as soon as possible. Read more about the review here.