Casino Articles (Page 2)

Casino Articles

Baseball and blackjack may have little in common, but some terminology from the outdoor sport has been borrowed for the indoor game, notably “third base” used to describe a player’s pos...
Blackjack has borrowed from the game of baseball in naming the seat that comes first in the dealing rotation “first base.” Just like the defensive position immediately to the left of th...
Even minor changes in the rules by which blackjack is played can cause major shifts in the advantage held by the House. The most liberal rules may give the casino a margin of just 0.2% ...
More so than any other casino table game, blackjack lends itself to the creation of side bets. Literally dozens of variations exist. Most of these are based on the initial cards receive...
Until rather recently, machine versions of blackjack looked a lot like slots or video poker games. They were housed in boxy-looking consoles that portrayed the dealer’s hand and the pla...
The game of blackjack is designed to earn profits for the House, not the player. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean winning is impossible. Quite the opposite, if a player is especially obse...
Blackjack players hate to bust. The only way to beat the dealer is to have a hand in play on the table when the dealer turns over the hole card. It makes one wonder, “What if there was ...
ShuffleMaster is one of the world’s leading companies in developing new variations of familiar table games. Their approach has been to pay close attention to what players want and then ...
What blackjack player hasn’t wished upon occasion that someone else would pay for his/her bets? Playing with someone else’s money is the ultimate form of security. So that’s exactly wha...
The desire to “peek” and see the dealer’s hole card is almost universal among blackjack players, so why not play a version of “21” that allows just that. The game is most commonly known...
Invented by Geoff Hall and distributed by Shuffle Master, Double Attack Blackjack is a variation of blackjack played with eight “Spanish decks” of 48 cards each—i.e., the tens have been...
It can sometimes be to the player’s advantage to play two hands of blackjack at a time against a dealer. It is often possible to “protect” the second hand by making appropriate decision...