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Black future for blackjack at Seminole

July 6, 2008 | land casinos

It’s business as usual at Seminole’s blackjack tables, but for how long?

Florida’s Supreme Court has overturned Gov. Crist’s decision to award the casino the right to offer banked card games to its players. The deal signed between the Tribe and the Governor was to bring millions of dollars to the State. The casino has already paid $50 million, and a further $100 million a year are supoused to be generated for the State. Now it looks, this opportunity will be lost, leaving nobody happy.

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Seminole Tribe shooting for the stars

June 23, 2008 | land casinos

Opening first legal card tables at Seminole Casino in Florida Max Osceola gestured toward the stars. “That vision of shooting for the stars is what we are doing,” he said. “We’re turning the page in our book of history.”

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Blackjack debut at Seminole Hard Rock

June 22, 2008 | blackjack strategy, land casinos, pop culture

Celebrities flock to The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Florida tonight to attend the debut of 71 new card tables, including about 55 for blackjack. This is the first time blackjack, one of the most popular casino games, will be legally played in Florida.

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Proof blackjack is a game of skill

May 13, 2008 | blackjack strategy

If anyone doubts whether blackjack is a game of skill, here is the proof. Not some scientific controlled research result, but a real life proof.

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21 Movie - True and Better

May 13, 2008 | pop culture

In 2004, BBC aired a documentary from a Horizon series about counting cards in casinos. The episode, Making Millions the Easy Way, was inspired by the same events as the book “Bringing down Vegas” and latest flick “21″. Typically for Horizon, filmmakers dug deeper and showed various techniques used by card counters over the years, as well as shown casinos, sometime heavy handed response.

BBC provides a transcript of that episode, and thanks to YouTube we can watch it, too.

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Blackjack

May 12, 2008 | history

Blackjack is one of the most popular casino card games, also known as Twenty One, or Pontoon, and originated in French casinos in the beginning of 18th Century.

In America the game didn’t find popularity and gambling houses tried offering various bonus payouts to get the players to the tables. One of them was a 10-to-1 payout if the player’s hand consisted of the ace of spades and a black Jack (either the Jack of clubs or the Jack of spades). This hand was called “blackjack” and it stuck to the game since.

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21

May 12, 2008 | pop culture

Casinos were always good topic for film. Dreamlike life of big money, beautiful women , expensive cars, drinks and never ending nightlife are ideal scenery for escapism created by cinema. This year there are two gambling movies to watch - “21″, based on a real story that inspired Ben Mezrich’s book “Bringing Down the House”, and “Deal” with Burt Reynolds, a story of set in World Poker Tour.

Both films are unique in a sense, as the story evolves around one game, and especially “21″ will do a lot to educate and promote blackjack among wider audience. Regardless of the rather bad reviews “21″ received.

And it’s about time blackjack, a classic casino game, receives similar status as poker.

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