Archive for December, 2011

Blackjack Bonanza Tournament at Bet365

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Blackjack Tournament time comes to the bet365 Casino again with bet365s regular Blackjack Bonanza competition, where there’s $10,000 up for grabs. Whatever you wager on Online Blackjack during this promotion, it will increase your chances of winning one of 200 amazing cash prizes.

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Overview of Blackjack Shuffle Tracking in a Casino

Shuffle Tracking at a Internet blackjack game is definitely a useful advantage strategy to know and to use at just the right moment.

There is no point learning shuffle tracking until you’ve became proficient a few card counting systems since by comparison, shuffle tracking is much, much easier. I think it is obvious that if a casino uses an automatic card shuffler (like all of Macau), this technique will not work.

As more and more casinos move to automatic card shufflers, this technique will slowly disappear.

The hardest part in shuffle tracking of Internet blackjack card games is finding a weak card dealer. If you’ve been around the same casino for a while, or have a great skill at reading people, look for the new card dealers just out of school. You will notice their nervous, flushed faces.

This is not cheating. It is utilizing information. If you are buying a house, and overhear one secretary in a real estate office whisper to another – ‘you mean someone finally is looking at that house, it’s been five years and we can’t sell it.’

Is utilizing that information to get a much better deal cheating? It’s not as if you broke into the real estate office late at night to rummage through private computers or put a wire tap on the real estate agent’s phone.
Spotting the weak card dealer works on the same principle, and that is why it’s called an advantage play. There are many other advantages of playing with a fresh newbie card dealer.

Shuffle tracking is just another reason why teams have such an advantage over individual players. Each member of the team would be at a different blackjack table and signal the main player (the head) if there is an unbalanced shuffle, or if the count is +15 while the card dealer went very deep into the ‘shoe’. If few face cards came out, then during the shuffle you must follow that cluster of cards left within the shoe as it’s the home of many of the face cards.

When you know exactly where in the new shoe that cluster will begin (let’s say after 50 cards you believe), that’s when you bet that table limit. Of course if you were betting $5 per hand and all of a sudden start betting $5000 per hand, you will have every eye in the sky watching your every move.

Practice makes perfect. Go get six decks of cards with a blue background and one deck with a red background. Put 15 red cards into the 6 blue decks towards the very end (take out 15 red cards). Ask your friend to shuffle, and notice if you can follow. Video tape someone very proficient at shuffling six decks as the shuffle 50 different times. Shuffle the cards yourself to get an idea how the cards move around the deck.

Card shuffling is a great strategy to use only for players who already can play near-perfect strategy for many hours and can count cards during a live blackjack game even when half asleep. If you are interested, here is a list of blackjack strategy books which will put you on the path to becoming a blackjack  master shuffle tracker.

Royal Vegas Casino International Blackjack League

Are you ready for some fast-paced Elimination Blackjack? It’s a fight for survival in close quarters!

Only the chip-stacks will determine how long you can fight to survive. Great prizes, a LIVE leaderboard and the mysterious secret bet make this the best Blackjack Tournament experience ever!

Enjoying the best odds in gambling is not complete without the International Blackjack League! This incredible online blackjack spree, brought to you by Royal Vegas Casino, presents a very exciting change from normal blackjack: with the IBJL, you get to play against other players in some fast-paced, free-for-all battles. Secret bets, live leaderboards and supercharged slugfests with exceptional winning potential is all in a day – and night – for a non-stop, 24/7 blackjack blast.

There are several Elimination Blackjack tournament types for you to choose from (for more information on types of tournaments see the ‘How to take part’ section), and each one will have its own specific Blackjack rules. But here’s what you can look forward to from every tournament you take part in!