Are Casinos Feeling the Recession?
In a country where sightseeing tour buses are being replaced by bus tours showing people long lists of foreclosed homes everyone is feeling the bite of recession. Even the casinos are feeling the pinch of the current economic situation. Revenues are down and the casinos are already...
South Florida Indian Casinos Get Ready For Blackjack Madness
Blackjack is right there with poker when it comes to the popularity of the two games in casinos. Both games are at the top of the list for people, and both are major money makers for casinos. In South Florida, the Seminole Indians are getting ready to offer blackjack under a compact...
Dubai World Looking For Gambling License In Nevada
Dubai World has been buying up stock in MGM. Their stock in MGM Mirage has prompted the company to apply for a state gambling license in Nevada. The company, which has its control handled by Dubai, had purchased a 9.4 percent stake in MGM Mirage. They have committed %5.1 billion to...
Kevin Spacey familiar with the risk business
During the mid 1990s, Mickey Rosa, a colourful professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, backed and ran a team of maths and engineering students who became known as the MIT Blackjack Club. Led by mechanical engineering undergrad Jeffrey Ma, for two years they used their...
Antigua to Reject Late USA Proposal to End WTO Online Poker-Gambling Dispute
It is anticipated that the Antigua government will reject a proposal for the resolution of the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade dispute over online poker and online gambling that it received from the United States last week, as the proposal “has not been met favorably by...
Ma Ying-jeou Pledges to Open Up Gambling Business
Taipei, April 10, 2008 (CENS)–President-elect Ma Ying-jeou pledged yesterday (April 9) to push opening up of gambling business after swearing into office by revising the Statute for Offshore Island Development, a move expected to benefit mainly Penghu whose residents have been...
Dealing with Your Luck
Dealing with situations that don’t go your way can be one of the hardest skills to learn in poker. If you play poker with any seriousness you know that it involves a lot of luck. No matter how many proper decisions we may make, that two outer still hits every now and then. But if...
Camouflage Betting
The easiest way for the house to detect a blackjack card counter is to watch their betting patterns. Counters have to elevate their bet when the count is in there favour, and lower them when the count is against them. This is no secret to the counters, and if they want to be successful...
BlackJack Table: Betting Spread
In blackjack, players who count cards look to take advantage of the cards that may be left in a deck. When they reach a count that is in their favour, they up their bet to win more money. There are also players who employ betting systems that use theory like doubling a bet after a...
21 or Blackjack?
For as long as most people can remember, this game has had two names. One place calls it blackjack and the next calls it 21. So is it called 21 or blackjack? And what’s the difference between the two? We decided to find out, and this is the why the game has two names. The game of...