With the possible exception of roulette, where you can play by knowing nothing more than the difference between red and black or an odd number from an even number, blackjack is the easiest game to learn in the casino. It…
Month: April 2015
Blackjack Insurance
In a 1996 episode of The Simpsons entitled “Hurricane Neddy,” the house of Simpsons’ neighbors Ned and the still-alive Maude Flanders is destroyed in a storm. The town is stunned to learn that straight-arrow Ned Flanders does not have insurance…
Casinos With Most Profitable Payouts
Everyone wants to get the biggest bang for a buck or a euro or a loony. When companies offer essentially the same products, like banks with certificates of deposit and casinos with slot machines, it pays to prominently post the…
Casinos That Accept Bank Transfer Wires
The future is not always obvious. In America, the federal government was not interested in developing telegraph technology and even its inventor Robert Morse could not envision how he had revolutionized communication. It took a plow salesman from Ithaca, New…
American Express Online Deposit Overview
Once upon a time American Express actually delivered express packages. That was in the 1850s when John Warren Butterfield, who began his business career as a stage coach driver, Henry Wells and William Fargo joined forces to transport mail across…
21st Century Blackjack
Fueled by the instant riches generated by America’s most famous Gold Rush, card rooms have been a part of the California cultural scene since statehood itself in 1850. At the pitch of the fever gambling space for a simple canvas…
Double & Triple Attack Blackjack
In 1983 John Breeding was about as far away from the gaming world as you could get, driving a truck in Minnesota. He was not even a gambler. But he read an article about how casino owners were battling the…
SuperFun 21 Blackjack
Is it a surprise if you hire a fox to design your hen house and you wake up one day to find all your chickens gone? Super Fun 21 is a blackjack variation with plenty of options for the players…
Mac Blackjack for Real Money
So you own a Mac. Congratulations, you are using the best personal computer available, right? You have also bought into the Apple ecosystem and are used to a closed world of products designed to run only on Macintosh computers. In…
High Roller Blackjack Casinos
Kerry Packer, an Australian media tycoon who was known to frequent casinos around the world, was playing in a poker tournament at the Stratosphere Casino in Las Vegas one night when he was approached by a Texas oil man about…