Blackjack Strategy

The competition (and bragging rights) for the World's Greatest Blackjack Player (aka Grosjean Cup) was significantly different than previous years at this year's Blackjack Ball.

Another year, another Blackjack Ball. But wait … this year's 27th Ball was slightly different from previous years. Co-hosts Max Rubin and Richard Munchkin implemented some exciting changes and additions that included:

Playing blackjack in a live casino means more social interaction with other players, and that has both up and down sides.

If you're playing at an online casino, you don't have to put up with taunts and barbs from other players who think they can play your hand better than you can.

Player choices make a difference in blackjack, regardless of whether you're playing online blackjack or in a live casino. That's one of the keys to the game's long-standing popularity.

The most obvious choices that make a difference come in blackjack strategy. Do you hit or stand. Should you double down? Should you split a pair? 

Players know the feeling, regardless of whether they're playing online blackjack or in live casinos. From the first hand, they're engaged, interested, thinking strategy on every card. It's a fun game, especially, when winning streaks are coming often enough to keep bankrolls full.

Learning basic strategy at blackjack is one thing. Internalizing it so it becomes second nature can be quite another.

Among blackjack variations that are rising in popularity in online casinos, Super Fun 21 Extreme has intrigue written in its very name.

What's Super Fun about it? What's extreme?

This article is about betting strategies used on blackjack and relates to other casino games too. I delve into that mysterious and often misunderstood world of betting strategies and systems. 

I’ll attempt to explain the principal codes of why using one can lead to success and at other times fail to. 

In casino poker rooms where participants play against each other, Texas Hold'em has long been the No. 1 game of choice.

Blackjack is filled with strategy traps for the unwary. There are plans of attack that seem to make common sense but are exposed as faulty on close examination.

Note: Click here to read Part 1 of this article.

For the second consecutive year, the 26th Blackjack Ball was held at one of the unique buildings in Las Vegas, the Cleveland Clinic – Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. (See photo of its unique and distinct architecture.) The building contains a large ballroom that could easily accommodate the 144 invitees to the Ball, who could socialize, network, dine, and drink all evening in comfort.

Knowing when to double down is a key part of any blackjack player's game. Permitting doubles is one way the house reduces the edge it gets from players having to risk busting first.