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Counting Cards in Blackjack

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Traditional blackjack requires a set skill, that of counting. Counting and being able to figure out numbers quickly is the best way to successfully play blackjack. When you play blackjack online, you must still use your own knowledge and mathematical discretion in order to win.

When you play blackjack or online blackjack, there are various tips and methods that may help you. Firstly, there is the basic ability to count the numbers on the cards. This may seem like enough in order to calculate a 21 sum, but you must know more.

Playing blackjack for fun is easy when you sum up 21 for yourself. Playing blackjack successfully, using strategies, means being able to figure out the card sum of other players and even the dealer. This is capable with the proper strategies.

One card counting system is the KO card counting system or Knock Out system. If you count down the deck of cards, you do not end up with a zero. The KO system is great for those who have trouble with the HI-LO system and anyone who has trouble running any count conversion. This is especially helpful to try when you are learning new card counting systems for Blackjack.

Remember that when you want to play blackjack online, you are already in a position to win. You’ve got the comfort of your own home and the luxury of your own pc to work with. Blackjack online requires your enthusiasm and a winning personality. Having techniques like card counting is something great to add to your abilities as an online casino player.

There are many card counting techniques for blackjack. KO is just one of them. Use it at your discretion and enjoy the outcome. If this particular card counting technique does not work for you, find another one. In the end, the only one who can win blackjack online is you.

History of blackjack

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

None of the descriptions of vingt-un in various old Hoyles mention anything about an "insurance" wager being allowed. This feature was added to the game of twenty-one much later in its history, most likely in the U.S. According to Steve Forte, the insurance wager was probably added in Nevada casinos sometime around the late 1950s. Photographs of casino blackjack tables from the 1950s do not show the familiar "Insurance Pays 2 to 1" signs on the layout, though photographs of tables from the 1960s usually do display this wording. I’ll also note that in the 1957 analysis of blackjack by Baldwin, Cantey, Maisel, and McDermott, in their groundbreaking Playing Blackjack to Win, they state that most Nevada casinos offer insurance, and mention two forms of insurance available-insuring against an ace-up blackjack for 2 to 1, and insuring against a ten-up blackjack for 10 to 1. That ten-up insurance option has long since disappeared from any Nevada casino that ever offered it. The similarity of the insurance option at blackjack to the insurance bet at trente-et-quarante is undeniable, and as trente-et-quarante is still popular in the casinos of both France and Italy, I suspect the addition of this rule to blackjack started with someone familiar with trente-et-quarante.