Many online casino players believe the myths that are spread around the internet, that’s why they lose money. If you want to play and win at blackjack, then you should avoid the blackjack myths that may mislead you to a wrong playing strategy. Here are the common myths and the facts behind each myth.

Blackjack Myth #1: You don’t have to count

Card counting is the basic skill in blackjack game. The myth said you don’t need to know card counting skills and you will still win at blackjack.

The Fact for Myth #1:

No blackjack players can possibly beat the dealer without knowing the composition of the remaining cards. Hence, card counting is an important skill to shift the odds in your favor and increase your chances of winnings. If you have learned any blackjack strategy tells you that you don’t have to count, then it won’t be a long term winning strategy.

By learning the effective card counting, you will be able to shift the “unfair advantage” (as the casinos call it) to your side, making the house remains in vulnerable position. In fact, card counting may not be as hard to learn as most players think of, you don’t have to count every single card, there is simple to way to learn how to count card. The bottom line is you need to know card counting in order to win at blackjack.

Blackjack Myth #2: All you need is a basic strategy to win at Blackjack

If you are learning blackjack strategies directly from online casinos’ website, what you learn is the basic strategy of the game. The myth said that all you need is a basic strategy to win at blackjack. The basic strategy teaches the rule of the game and how to bet to win the game (in fact, it is how to bet to lose in casino’s view of point). If you play with this basic strategy, most probably you will lose money. This is what the casino wants you to be. No way.

The Fact for Myth #2:

Average players play with basic strategy, that’s why most of them lose. Although there have been many books written by numerous authors on blackjack, most of their strategies still stick to the basic strategy that won’t help in winning the game. In order to devise a safe winning blackjack system, you need to know the value of odds to determine the magic formula if you want to win consistently at blackjack.

Blackjack Myth #3: You must get the nearest to 21 to win

This is very common myth especially among those who are new to blackjack game. One of the reason that makes players to misunderstand that they need to get as close as possible to 21 in order to win is because blackjack is also common known as the game of 21. But, it simply a myth saying that you must get the nearest to 21 if you want to win.

The Fact for Myth #3:

When playing blackjack, your goal is simply to beat the dealer’s hand and win. You do not need to get to the closest of 21 to win, as long as you beat the dealer’s hand without burst, you win! It’s that simple.

Many players who are influenced by the myth are try to take cards until they are closest to 21, but most of time, they go bust and lose. You make decision to take more cards or call to stand based upon your cards and the dealer’s cards. You may need to take more cards until you feel you have beat the dealer’s hand. Many players tend to scare of busting, so they just take one or two cards, then stand and hoping for winning. In blackjack, as long as you can’t beat the dealer’s hand, you will still lose even you did not go bust. Hence, don’t scare of busting, you may need to take the risk to beat the dealer’s hand, off course, you should have a proper strategies in place.



By: Bill Carton

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Blackjack is a game where you play against the dealer with other people around you sitting at the same table playing against the dealer also. You are NOT playing against the other people sitting around you. The object of blackjack is to try and get as close as you can to 21 or 21 without going over. Blackjack rules will be critical to your success so you will need to learn as many as you can. There are different variations to blackjack such as strip blackjack, samsung blackjack ii, samsung blackjack, etc… The only profitable blackjack game you can play is the standard blackjack games that are in every single casino and online.

To be a successful blackjack player you need to develop a winning blackjack strategy and stick to that strategy forever. Some people use card counting as a blackjack strategy such as the card counting mit group. I am not a big card counting fan, I think that should be for roulette systems. In blackjack before they implanted using multiple card decks, card counting definitely worked. The only time card counting will work is single deck blackjack games. These are usually played in the comfort of your own home amongst friends. You can’t really find one of these games in a casino. Most casinos only allow 4 decks or more blackjack games with automatic shufflers making card counting pretty much impossible. So if you bought some kind of card counting strategies, I am sorry but you definitely wasted your time and your money. The only proven blackjack strategies are ones using the blackjack strategy chart along mixed in with a winning system. How to play blackjack is a burning question many advent blackjack players want to know. More especially they want to know how to play blackjack and make a CONSISTENT WINNING playing. Again, the best blackjack tips I could ever give you is to stay clear of card counting strategies and pick up a copy of a free blackjack strategy guaranteed to dominate the house. You will be bringing down the house in no time. Eventually you will be winning so much casinos will think you are cheating! Sounds a little farfetched but it happened to me back in 1992. The casino was keeping a close eye on me at the blackjack table and even took me into a small room and questioned me. They told me they have never seen anyone win as much as I was doing. At one point I won 24 hands in a row, setting a record at that time which is still held today by me in that same casino. It is an amazing feeling constantly beating the house. The house is designed to have a 5% better chance than you winning EVERY SINGLE TIME. I don’t know about you, but that’s not fair. Using proven strategies you will eliminate the houses edge and you will actually have a 95% to 5% chance of crushing the HOUSE consistently! I wish you the best in your blackjack career!



By: Chris Malcolm

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Blackjack is played by millions of people on the internet and at live casinos all over the entire world. Most people do not have a grasp of the blackjack rules and just jump right into blackjack games and lose all their money. If you are just starting out and want to learn blackjack rules to dominate the house, I suggest you keep reading this article.

When you play a blackjack game you compete against the dealer, not against other players. Your goal is to simply beat the dealer by having a higher hand without going over 21. If you bust the dealer automatically wins. The dealer MUST stop on the total of 17 and cannot receive another card. The values of each cards are the following: Jacks, Queens and Kings are each worth 10 points; Aces are worth either 1 point or 11 points-you get to decide, depending on what serves your hand better; cards numbered from 2 through 10 are worth their face value (i.e. a four is worth 4 points). The best hand in blackjack is a 2-card hand with a value of 21. This hand consists of an Ace and a card worth 10 points. Blackjack card counting works well also.

Blackjack Dominator Strategy Tips

• always stand on 17 or better

• always hit on 12-16 when the dealer’s up card is 7 or higher

• always hit on 8 or less

Doubling Down Blackjack Dominator Strategy Tips

• always double down on 11 – except against the dealer’s Ace

• double down on 10 when the dealer shows 9 or lower

• double down on 9 when the dealer shows 6 or lower

Blackjack Dominator Strategy for playing Soft Hands

• always stand on soft 19 and soft 20

• always double down on soft 13-18 if the dealer shows 4,5, or 6

Blackjack Dominator Splitting Strategy Tips

• always split aces and 8’s.

• NEVER split 10 and face cards and never split 5’s

• always split 3’s and 2’s when the dealer shows 4,5,6, or 7

Playing blackjack online is one of the greatest ways to make money if you use the blackjack tips above. There are many free blackjack games on the internet for you to test out to get a feel of the game. Make sure you bring your blackjack cheat sheet with you when playing at any casino or tape it to your computer when you play online. Online blackjack is no doubt the most profitable game of any online gambling games. You can easily learn to dominate the house and give yourself the edge each time. Without having the proper blackjack strategy the house will have the edge every single time. Please expect to lose lots of money at the blackjack table. Blackjack is not a game of luck; it is completely based off skill and knowing when to hit or stand, or double down. Please don’t ever sit down in a blackjack game for real money if you’re not familiar with the blackjack rules. I wish you the best of luck! Blackjack isn’t easy but with the proper strategies you will be winning in no time!



By: Chris Malcolm

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One of the best ways of foreseeing the future is to understand the human nature. Our needs, hopes, problems and dreams are often the basis for our future making. The nature of the human being is one of the most important ingredients in a complicated gambling business. Each of the parties – a casino and a gambler, long to win money from each other. And the growing strain will determine the future of the game.

Blackjack before 1962:

Before publication of the classic book “Beat The Dealer” by Edward O. Thorp in 1962 no single player had ever suspected of such a thing as the Basic Strategy. Everyone used one’s own mixture of superstitions concerning the way in which one or the other hand had to play. Plus, some experience gained while playing at home in the kitchen. Excluding a small number of professional card-players who intuitively presupposed that their overbalance would be more if there were more bowers left in a pack, practically none won in blackjack. Naturally, casinos felt quite comfortable under such conditions. Till 1962 blackjack was not very popular, though percentagewise the profit rate was exclusively high.

The next decade: from 1962 till 1972:

After publication of the book by Thorp the situation changed radically. When the book mounted the peak of sales, became a bestseller, and the professor Thorp became an internationally famous personality, casinos were terrified that thus everyone could learn the system of Thorp and would start beating casinos winning huge amounts of money.

The results of this panic are well-known. The majority of casinos cardinally changed the blackjack rules creating even a larger overbalance in comparison with the previous set of rules. These introductions were effective a few weeks only as the majority of casinos’ clients simply refused to play a game with such bad rules. Subordinating to the law of supply and demand casinos had to quickly restore traditional rules for all. After this gamblers started immediately to play again, more than that in considerably larger quantities.

The popularity of Thorp’s book played into the hands of casinos. Blackjack started to attract crowds of people who thought they could “beat a dealer” only after they had read one book.

But the fact remained that casinos’ visitors continued to lose the same amounts of money while playing blackjack as before. Only the number of gamblers increased a hundred times. The majority of those who had read the book simply didn’t understand the way the calculation of tens given in the book worked, and those who got to the bottom didn’t take enough pains so as to master the system of calculation from A to Z. Casinos observed in surprise the incredibly increased profits.

Reedition of the book in 1966 gave a reader a simpler calculation system. Over that period of time a number of books on blackjack were published. The game gathered pace. Casinos were setting more and more tables. Blackjack was becoming the most popular game in casinos having outrun the previous leader craps.

Blackjack of the 70s:

The classic book “Playing Blackjack as a Business” by Lawrence Revere is responsible for further increase in popularity of the game in the 70s to a great extent. Revere published a shortened version of his systems at the beginning of 1969, but by 1972 already thousands of copies of the book were sold out. Revere republished an extended version of the book offering his simple and effective systems of the game which increased blackjack popularity even more.

Also the book “Winning Blackjack” by Stanley Roberts, was in the right place at the right time, in addition the author appeared in a number of radio and TV-shows. Roberts invested a considerable amount of money into advertising of his book making a splash.

Casinos were once again overcome by the fit of paranoia. They started to suspect that the systems developed with the help of research methods could considerably influence their profits. Casinos started to introduce a multi-pack blackjack instead of a one-pack blackjack to struggle against the system game.

At the beginning of the 70s a lot of scientists, mathematicians, university professors and other “intellectuals” started to write books about blackjack. Some of them developed their own cards’ calculation systems. One of the most popular and effective systems – Hi-Opt I, was developed in 1974 with the help of computer programs created by Julian Brown with participation of an anonymous postgraduate of a large Canadian university.

A lot of professional gamblers transferred from the Revere system to the Hi-Opt I system because of the relative simplicity and effectiveness of the latter one. A lot of ordinary gamblers started to use the system together with the basic strategy. These two systems evidently made the biggest impact upon casinos’ profits because of their use by professionals. Roberts’ systems were more often used by amateurs.

Kenneth Uston, teams and Great Horror:

Kenneth Uston noticed sometime at the end of 1976 that he was amazed by the way how effective the simplest systems of Hi-Opt I type could be. In Uston’s book “Big Player“the way how Uston and his companions won together more than a million of dollars playing blackjack is described. Later on his teams transferred from very complicated systems to the simplest of Hi-Opt I type. Uston was thrown out of a few big casinos of Las Vegas, and he filed lawsuit against them for a total amount of 80 million dollars.

With the arrival of Uston the whole new era of blackjack began. Casinos were once again frightened that teams could win huge amounts of money in blackjack. Nearly at once some casinos did away with a one- and two-pack blackjack transferring to 4-, 6- and 8-pack ones. For an average gambler blackjack became too difficult. Plus, casinos started to cut most cards out of play – to two packs. As has been mentioned by Roberts in one of his articles, such practice was at the very least doubtful. By the way, the fact itself of availability of cards which didn’t enter the game caused new kinds of crooked gambling connected with withdrawal and addition of cards.

Casinos up to now change the number of packs and the extent of cutting, and compare levels of profits, thus balancing rules. In any case, rules are extremely difficult for gamblers in the USA, especially beginners.

The nightmare continues:

The funniest thing is that gamblers’ thoughts are not rigid. Uston’s teams were followed by Keith Taft with his pocket computer for blackjack which played better than any profs in the world. The court of Nevada State broke the record of the USA on the quickness of adoption of statute on use of computers in casinos. Up to five years with confiscation in the current situation, though Taft and his advocates were sure of the unconstitutionality of that law.

Forbade the computer? There appeared Tommy Hyland and his most complicated systems of tracking. A new headache for casinos… To worsen the cutting, introduce more packs and make the procedure of riffle even longer. To invent shuffle-machines!

Stanford Wong was the first to outwit these shuffle-machines. The most important thing was to know how they worked. Poor casinos didn’t know what to do. These machines cost rather a lot.

Perhaps new varieties would help? Spanish 21, Super-fan 21, 6:5 blackjack, “Open” blackjack, Blackjack-switch, Pontoon… With every introduction there was one problem: either no one played it at all or profs immediately found the way to beat it. Tournaments? Old Wong created teams especially for tournament struggle. Every new rule was calculated and intensively looked into a week in advance. The development of the Internet caused quick information distribution.

Further on the whole pleiad of gamblers of the contemporary generation came on stage. Wong, Sneider, Anderson, Dogerty, Shlesinger and heaps of people who were occupied with theory and practical aspects of the game. Mathematical models of the game were worked out. Texts on Blackjack were published in scientific reviews.

Finally, up to the present moment a small number of professionals still win in blackjack. And will win in the future. Some profs transfer to more complicated systems which are plentiful (let’s say, Hi-Opt II was published as far back as 1976). New methods and techniques are being developed.

There is no doubt that it will get still more and more difficult to win in blackjack. However, there difficulties only make gambling wits work harder and harder. Right away new game systems are being worked out in many heads and at many computers of the world.

It is important to understand that gamblers always have a hope. They can change games. They can finally read a textbook on the theory of probability. They can read the same books themselves. They can spend even more money on the newest technologies. However, I assure You, there will always be a way to beat them.

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Are there many blackjack betting systems?

Since the first ever casino opened its doors to punters hundreds of years ago, people have been trying to beat the house. Unusual and astonishing systems all claiming to make you rich fast, by turning any casino into their own personal cash machine, due to the favourable odds obtaining through the betting system. The thought of winning that life changing jackpot has meant that every Tom, Dick and Harry are trying their hand at inventing blackjack systems – unfortunately very few of these betting systems work, and as a result, are a waste of time and money!

What about card counting?

For years now, the traditional advice many professional blackjack players give for gaining an advantage over the casinos was to count cards and increase your bet when the point count was in your advantage. Conversely, times have changed as the use of multiple decks and shuffling machines have been introduced, and as a result counting cards is nearly impossible. It’s advised that players don’t waste their time and money using this type of blackjack strategy, as they will only lose.

If card counting systems are no good, how exactly do you win at blackjack?

The best advice is to pick up a basic blackjack strategy card chart will allow you to know exactly when it is best to HIT, STAND, DOUBLE DOWN, etc…This will give you an edge over the house, if only marginal. Once this chart has been memorised the house will never have a 55% to 45% edge on you again. If you have no black jack strategy in place, the house has a 55%-45% edge over the player as they act last and before it’s their turn, the player could have already busted out which means the house automatically wins.

Are their any tips or strategies that can help?

Before you spend another penny in any real life or online casino blackjack game, you need to play blackjack online for free until you get a real grasp of the game, its rules and regulations. A great site which hosts a free blackjack game is www.expertblackjack.co.uk, they also give a great overview of the online blackjack market and its competitors. To further your blackjack career, it’s imperative you memorise a blackjack strategy chart showing you exactly what to do with any hand you are dealt. This information will be essential during your blackjack career.

What shall I steer clear of?

Counting cards in blackjack is definitely not the route you should take. You are guaranteed to fail and it will end up costing you thousands and thousands of pounds. With so many decks and so many cards still out there, counting cards isn’t an option anymore in today’s blackjack world, especially the online world. Don’t waste your money on card counting software as this is just another way in which people are fleecing the unaware consumer as they are worthless.

  

What’s the best advice you can give blackjack novice?

Learn the blackjack rules thoroughly as well as a few basic blackjack strategies. Once you know the before mentioned info you will be on the road to riches in no time.

Is it better to play in real life or online?

Commonly people believe that online blackjack is rigged. That is NOT the case. It is good practice to play blackjack on multiple casinos though because it doesn’t allow the dealer to catch winning streaks. Playing both online and real life blackjack will help you fine tune your technique and eventually play a better game.

Where is the best place to play online blackjack?

There are many great blackjack providers out there, deciding on which is the best for you depends on what you are looking for? Large jackpots, promotions, graphics, game speed etc..all play a part, for the best online casinos check out the in depth reviews at www.expertblackjack.co.uk.



By: Erim Jones

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There are few games in life where players can play with a unified level of excitement, tension, and camaraderie. This usually takes place in team games and sports. It is rare, and altogether unique, to see this level of excitement in individual games such as online casino games.

Is one such casino game where players have contempt for the others while still getting excited for them. It is a very thin line of tension and excitement for online casino gambling. Blackjack online is one of the very exclusive games that offers this feeling.

The culture of blackjack online is different from that of traditional blackjack in the sense that it is played usually alone. When you play from the comfort of your home, you won’t experience the level of excitement that you might when you play in a traditional land based casino. The point is, though, that you sacrifice the excitement level – some might call it “noise” – for the comfort of playing blackjack online from your home.

Folks who play blackjack know that when they get together, they have a lingo and passion for the object of the game like none other. They understand each other and the way the game could go. The stakes of blackjack can go stale or higher than most folks would ever imagine.

When blackjack players talk about the game they love, they understand that they have a community of players that they can relate to. Online blackjack offers a large array of online forums for the players to create relationships within. That is one important aspect of the blackjack online culture that so many regular land blackjack players never get to participate in. Tips and information about the game can be shared within these online communities. Meet up groups and fun pick up games can be initiated with these online communities for blackjack online.

The communities of any game can be found in forums and online communities. There, you can ask questions as a new player or hash information about old hands and strategies. It is important not to let your techniques or strategies in blackjack online go stale. Playing for fun and sharing old stories about smoking cigars is something that many players from the online blackjack culture do. Blackjack online can offer this while traditional blackjack does one thing: it provides you a place to sit and order cocktails. The choice is up to you and you can only decide what is the best style of blackjack for you.

Once you’ve started with any online casino hall, you will find that the culture and closeness of players is unstoppable. Find out now when you ask a question or join an online casino. Enjoy being apart of your new blackjack culture!



By: Armand Colwin

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Blackjack is one of the most popular card games in gambling history. Now you don’t have to go all the way to Las Vegas to play blackjack for fun or real money, because many Internet casinos offer online blackjack. The advantages of playing blackjack online are numerous, and some gamblers enjoy online play even more than live casino play. Here are just some of the advantages of playing blackjack online.

One of the advantages of playing blackjack online is the convenience. You can play online blackjack 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, because that’s when online casinos are open. Whenever you’re ready to play online blackjack, there will be a game waiting for you. You don’t have to leave your house and stand around in a smoky casino waiting for a table to open up. Online blackjack is available right from your home computer, and you will never have to wait for a seat.

Choice of play is another one of the advantages of playing blackjack online. One of the great things about the game of blackjack is that it relies far more on skill than luck. Many reputable Internet casinos will let you play online blackjack for free as often as you like, so you can get plenty of practice in and sharpen your blackjack skills before you start playing for money. You can also play any of the different variations of blackjack when you play at an Internet casino, and shop around for the rules that are the most favorable, such as blackjack tables where the dealer does not have the soft 17 rule, or where the DOA (Double On All) and DAS (Double After Split) rules are in effect. These are just a few of the advantages of playing blackjack online!



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