Popular Casino Card Game

Posted by Nick Niesen on October 27th, 2010

Blackjack is usually a quiet game in the casino. You may see onlookers standing around the table but you don?t hear the cheering and the shouting that accompanies the game of craps. Blackjack is a very popular game both online and in the brick and mortar casino. The game is popular because it is simple to learn, easy to play and is winnable if the player learns strategy. The game is not a new game. It is descended from the French game Vingt et Un, which means twenty-one in French.

The player just has to total the cards according to the following scale: picture cards and tens are valued at ten points, an ace is valued as one or eleven points and the remainder of the cards at valued at face value. A ten point card and an ace on the deal are called blackjack. This is payable at three to two and is paid off immediately. If the player doesn?t have blackjack, then the question is what should the player do? This is where strategy comes in by telling the player what the statistically best move is for each situation. The player who learns strategy and plays by strategy has the best chance of winning. This is why it behooves the player to learn strategy if he is going to play for real money. Many people who play the game once in a while don?t even know that there is such a thing as strategy. These obviously, are not the serious players.

Class for Card Counters

Blackjack is a game of strategy and skill. It is a game where the house advantage can be lowered to less than one percent by playing according to basic strategy. The players can lower the house edge even further by using card counting. Card counting is not a new strategy. It is based on the idea that the player increases or decreases his wagers based on the idea that the deck is or isn?t favorable to the players. The deck is favorable to the players when it is rich in high cards because the dealer has to draw on a hand of sixteen of higher.

A deck rich in high cards results in the dealer having a better chance of going bust. This is a situation where the player would increase his wagers since he also stands a better chance of scoring twenty-one with the high card rich deck. There are different techniques of card counting. There is a method called the Golden Touch Blackjack that is a two day course taught by Henry Tamburin and Frank Scoblete. They teach a method they call speed counting. The course is not cheap ? it costs $895 for the two day course which covers many aspects of the game of blackjack. Interested parties can find more information on their website at goldentouchblackjack.com, including the dates of the scheduled courses. For those who are looking for a structured intensive land-based course, take a look at this one and see if it is of interest.