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7 unusual facts about Blackjack


Casino Goa

It has around eleven tables of American Roulette, Blackjack and Paplu (Rummy) besides a few electronic slot machines.

Casino hold 'em

As such while computer programs can easily deal with the calculations required to make the correct play in any particular hand, it is difficult to make a set of general rules which can be memorized such as exists for Blackjack.

Game Wave Family Entertainment System

Unlike the main consoles (such as the PS3), the Game Wave is aimed at a more family friendly market: a majority of its games are trivia based or video versions of more traditional games (such as variants of Scrabble and Blackjack).

GNOME Games

GNOME Blackjack - a computerized implementation of the gambling game.

Golden Nugget 64

Blackjack: The goal of blackjack is to get the total point value of your cards to 21 without going over.

Pharaoh's Casino

Blackjack, Caribbean Stud Poker, American Roulette, Modern Slot Machines, Video Poker, 77 live gaming positions including a high limit VIP salon and modern slot and video poker machines are amongst the gambling facilities in Pharaoh's Casino.

Trey Atwood

His ex-girlfriend Jess later re-appeared, begging Ryan to help her with some boyfriend troubles and told Ryan that Trey was working as a Blackjack Dealer.


Ben Mezrich

This book tells the story of a group of students from MIT who bet on blackjack games using a sophisticated card counting system, earning millions of dollars at casinos in Las Vegas and other gambling centers in the United States and the Caribbean.

Blackjack Forum

Blackjack Forum was a trade journal for professional blackjack players, founded in 1981 and published by noted blackjack author Arnold Snyder.

It was considered one of the major newsletters or journals for the blackjack market, along with Stanford Wong's Current Blackjack News.

Breaking Vegas

The episode "Professor Blackjack" is about MIT professor Edward O. Thorp's computer-based research on the Kelly criterion that was applied in real Vegas casinos in the form of computer aided card-counting schemes with very successful results.

The series was inspired by the two-hour History Channel documovie entitled Breaking Vegas: The True Story of the MIT Blackjack Team (see MIT Blackjack Team) written and directed by Bruce David Klein and produced by Atlas Media Corp.

Busting Vegas

The book's main character Semyon Dukach, while attending MIT is recruited by team leader Victor Cassius to play on a highly specialised blackjack team that employs advanced advantage play strategies like card steering and Ace sequencing.

Card counting

From the early days of card-counting, some players have been hugely successful, including Al Francesco, the inventor of blackjack team play and the man who taught Ken Uston how to count cards, and Tommy Hyland, manager of the longest-running blackjack team in history.

Casino Royale Goa

The World Gaming Festival will encompass individual tournaments for different Casino games like Blackjack, Roulette, Texas Hold'em Poker, Indian Flush and Baccarat and will feature some of the best players battling it out for the prize money worth Rupees 5 Crores.

Casino Royale Goa as a gaming destination offers a variety of gaming options ranging from American Roulette, Baccarat, Black Jack, Money wheel, poker, pontoon, craps and slot machines besides a VVIP gaming room.

Darwin Ortiz

During that time, he initially supported himself playing blackjack (using card counting techniques) and as an instructor at Harry Lorayne's memory school in New York.

Ek Commando Knife Co.

In 1993 Blackjack Knives bought Ek, and moved production to Blackjack's plant in Effingham, Illinois.

Elimination Blackjack

Elimination Blackjack is a tournament format of blackjack invented by Russ Hamilton, and is played on the Ultimate Blackjack Tour and in various casinos.

Ellen Feld

The 'Morgan Horse' series (reading level ages 9–13) includes Blackjack: Dreaming of a Morgan Horse and its sequel, Frosty: The Adventures of a Morgan Horse. Both books were selected (in different years) as winners of Children's Choices, an award co-sponsored by the International Reading Association and The Children's Book Council.

Frank D'Amelio

In March 1983, his brother and sister were able to get him a position as a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas at a considerable increase in salary compared to his construction work.

Great Blue Heron Casino

The table games include: Roulette, Blackjack, Spanish 21, Mini Baccarat, Let it Ride Poker, Texas Hold Em Poker, Pai Gow Poker, Three & Four Card Poker and Texas Hold Em Bonus Poker.

Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races

It now features a 1930s Art Deco and classic Hollywood theme, as well as various table games like blackjack and roulette and a 50-table (combined) poker room on two different floors in two different areas.

Inge Hornstra

Other credits include medical drama series G.P., Big Sky, Murder Call, Wildside, Water Rats, Head Start, BeastMaster, and Farscape; and the television films Chameleon, which aired on UPN in 1998, BlackJack: Murder Archive and BlackJack: Ace Point Game.

Jarlath Regan

Some highlights from the series included his interview with Chris Rock and Adam Sandler, a series of comedy sketches in which Regan beat toddlers at physical tests of strength and an in-studio game called "The €21 Challenge" in which Regan forced a child to gamble their pocket money in an unusual game of blackjack.

Lynwood Drake

Finally he made his way to the home of 60-year-old Joanne Morrow – also a former landlord of his – in San Miguel, and, beating her with a blackjack and threatening to kill her, he took her hostage.

Lytton Band of Pomo Indians

When President Clinton signed the bill into law, the Lyttons gained the right to turn the CSP, formerly a low-stakes cardroom, into a full-fledged casino with much more profitable gambling devices and games such as slot machines and blackjack.

Martha Watson

When President Jimmy Carter announced the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, that "killed the spark." By that point in time she had already found employment dealing Blackjack at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Normandie Casino

In the mid-1980s, a tremendous Asian influence came with the introduction of the California games, including Blackjack, Pai Gow Poker, and Super 9, a game similar to Baccarat.

Puzzle Panic

Puzzle Panic, also known as Ken Uston's Puzzle Panic, was a computer game created by blackjack strategist Ken Uston, Bob Polin and Ron Karr and published by Epyx in 1984 for the Atari 400/800 and Commodore 64.

Seminole Casino Immokalee

Originally opened in February 1994, and recently expanded the property in February 2009; the Seminole Casino offers Vegas Style Slot machines, Poker and a variety of table games including Baccarat, Blackjack, and three card poker.

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood

In a deal valued at $1.1 billion, former Governor Charlie Crist gave the Seminole Tribe a license for blackjack in its casinos.

Semyon Dukach

Dukach was the main character in Busting Vegas and the only member of the MIT blackjack team to be referred to by his real name in either book.

Standard 52-card deck

Casino blackjack decks may include markings intended for a machine to check the ranks of cards, or shifts in rank location to allow a manual check via inlaid mirror.

The Complete TurtleTrader: How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires

Although each of the 1,000 applicants went through a rigorous application process designed to test their intelligence, ability to manage risk, and mathematical skills, the makeup of the chosen Turtles differed greatly; they included a Czechoslovakian-born blackjack master, a Dungeons and Dragons game designer, an evangelical accountant, a Harvard MBA, a U.S. Air Force pilot, and a former pianist.

Thomas B. Jeffery Company

These unique vehicles saw heavy service under General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing.

Ultimate Blackjack Tour

Featured players of the Ultimate Blackjack Tour are members of Team UBT, which is made up of poker stars like Johnny Chan, Robert Williamson III, and Phil Laak and professional blackjack players like world champions Ken Einiger and Anthony Curtis, "Hollywood" Dave Stann and Monica Reeves.


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