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Blackjack (21)
Blackjack is a popular American casino game, now found throughout the world. It is a banking game in which the aim of the player is to achieve a hand whose points total nearer to 21 than the banker's hand, but without exceeding 21.
Marvin L. French reports that in Nevada casinos this game is called 21 rather than Blackjack; "Blackjack" is the name of the same game played in the home, with slightly different rules mostly associated with the absence of a house dealer. The "Blackjack" holding of ace and jack is called a "natural" by all casino personnel.
Confusingly, the name Black Jack is used in Britain for an entirely different card game which is essentially the same as Crazy Eights.
Here are some links for rules and information about Blackjack (21).
- The Blackjack FAQ and the associated newsgroups rec.gambling.blackjack.moderated and rec.gambling.blackjack
- The Lucky Blackjack site has information on Blackjack rules and variants, advice on tactics, links to online casinos where Blackjack can be played, and other Blackjack resources.
- Blackjack Hero provides an introduction to the game and its variations, advice on tactics including card counting, information on tournaments and players, listings of land based and online casinos where Blackjack can be played, and other resources.
- Play Smart Blackjack provides a straightforward but thorough introduction to Blackjack in five lessons. The aim is to teach the game in a way that is easy for a beginner to understand.
- The Blackjack Tactics site provides an introduction to Blackjack, advice on strategy including card counting, a glossary of terms, rules for some variants, and other useful resources.
- Kenneth R Smith's blackjackinfo.com site, where you can use the Blackjack Basic Strategy Engine to check the best basic strategy under various casino rules, and where you can also find a complete explanation of the rules of casino blackjack.
- The Blackjack Data Repository is a huge collection of Blackjack statistics and probabilities culled from simulations and arranged in tables.
- Norman Wattenberger's Blackjack in Color is an unusual free Web-based Blackjack book providing an analysis of Blackjack and Card Counting illustrated by 139 charts. He also publishes the Blackjack Scams site, which points out some short-cuts that will more likely cost you money than make a profit.
- The Blackjack Professor site provides information on Blackjack rules and strategy, plus links to other resources including online Blackjack games.
- The Blackjack section of the Ready Bet Go site has articles on Blackjack strategy, interviews with professional players, book reviews and other resources.
- Jacob Rief's Beat Blackjack site has a useful discussion of Blackjack probabilities and strategies, including card counting, and offers the open source computer program bbjd which can be used to investigate optimum strategies.
- The Counting Edge site explains Blackjack card counting strategies, and includes a Java card counting tutor.
- James Yates has written a page Blackjack Solved, which explains Harvey Dubner's Blackjack card counting system.
- Martin Templeman's Real-Blackjack.co.uk site offers rules, strategy advice including card counting, and links to online Blackjack games.
- Best Online Casino Guide's Strip Blackjack page has rules of a variation of Blackjack named after the Las Vegas Strip (no association with undressing).
- The Blackjack Information page of the Online-Casinos site has rules, tips on strategies including card counting, a printable strategy matrix and a free online Blackjack game for practice.
- The Gamblers Edge Online Blackjack Guide provides an introduction to online blackjack: basic strategy, blackjack tips, blackjack simulators and blackjack links.
- The Mr Blackjack site has rules, strategy advice, a dictionary of terms, and links to online Blackjack games.
- Charlie Post's All About Blackjack site, with rules, history and strategy and other information about the game.
- The Online Blackjack Review has rules, advice on money management and strategy, including card counting, advice on where to play, and links to online casinos.
- Blackjack Guru, which has rules, tips, strategies and a free online Blackjack game.
- The Playing 21 site offers a computer program which can be used to analyse the advantage obtained from different card counting strategies against a variety casino blackjack rules.
- Daniel Harrison's Blackjack Tool is a Windows program that helps a player to follow basic blackjack strategy correctly while playing on line.
- Blackjack.us.com has rules, information about strategy, including card counting methods, general information about on line and real life casinos, and links to on line blackjack games.
- The Blackjack Rules and Strategy page from casino-gaming.com
- The page Online Blackjack at Casino Domain site has rules, basic strategy, and a basic explanation of card counting.
- The Blackjack Quest site provides rules, strategy advice, strategy and odds charts and basic information on card counting.
- Steve Hopkins' MaxJackpots site includes Blackjack rules and advice.
- The Gambling Times Basics of Blackjack page
- The Blackjack 777 site has a useful collection of information including rules, strategies, books and articles.
- The Online Blackjack Odds site has a range of Blackjack information, advice and news.
- The Blackjack Man site has rules, strategies and links.
- The Blackjack King site has links to casinos offering bonuses to online blackjack players, as well as blackjack rules and advice.
- The Blackjack section of the Online Casino Tips site has rules, information and advice.
- The Il Dado site has pages about Blackjack
- Casino.de includes a German language Blackjack guide by Jan Balslev, offering a free training game with built-in strategy advice, a blackjack strategy calculator and a Flash video explaining the blackajck rules visually.
- The Blackjackman site has information about Blackjack and links to on-line games.
- Greedy Hog Blackjack has rules, tips and links to casinos offering Blackjack games.
- The web site Online-blackjack.com has a free online game, rules, strategy, and links to casinos with online Blackjack games.
- Blackjack-info.net has rules, strategy, links, a free online game, and is also available in French.
- Blackjack Strategy Card has strategy guides for Blackjack and various other casino games, and links to online casinos.
- The Blackjack 2002 Online Blackjack site has rules, basic strategy including card counting, links to online casinos and other information.
- The VasLegas - Secrets of Online Casinos site has a guide to playing Blackjack at online casinos, taking advantage of online casino bonuses.
- CanIWin.com offers advice on how to win money playing Blackjack at online casinos, taking advantage of their introductory bonuses, and has a forum where people who have tried this compare their experiences of various casinos.
- The Blackjack Babe site has rules, strategy and links to online casinos.
- The Black Jack Online Casino site has rules, tips and links to casinos.
- The Enjoy Blackjack site has rules, basic strategy and stories.
- The Web Blackjack Online site has a collection of book, software and casino reviews and Blackjack articles.
- www.tenandace.com is a Blackjack guide with rules, advice and links to online casinos where Blackjack can be played.
- The Online Blackjack Rules site provides an introduction to Blackjack rules and terminology.
- The Gambling Page includes some straightforward Blackjack tips.
Spanish 21 is a game similar to Blackjack (21) but played with the Spanish 48-card pack, without tens.
Casino Tropez Mobile offers an online Blackjack game that can be played using a mobile phone.
UK-based Aces Royal offers online Blackjack for real money using a mobile phone.
Norman Wattenberger's QFIT Casino Vérité provides Windows Blackjack software products for card counting, basic strategy, shuffle tracking and Ace prediction. The associated site Blackjack-Counting.com provides a suite of online Blackjack calculators and tables of Blackjack card counting data.
Hit or Stand is a free blackjack computer game and trainer that teaches you basic strategy while you play.
The winneronline.com site has rules and a free java Blackjack game.
The computer program Ultimate Blackjack is available from Accidental Software
Casino Blackjack from XFusion Software teaches basic strategy and also card counting, keeping track of the running count for severalrent counting systems. It is available in Windows and Macintosh versions.
Gipsy King Software offer a Blackjack Gold, a shareware game for Macintosh OSX, PPC and Windows, that lets you test alternative strategies.
The Animated Blackjack computer game is available from piggyback.com.
You can play Blackjack at the Golden Star Casino.
The USA Poker Portal site offers free online multiplayer poker and blackjack games for fun. These can be customised and branded to run as part of your own web site.
Casino Games Simulation has a Java version of Blackjack which can be played on line for fun or practice.
The Backgammon Masters - Blackjack site has a collection of short Blackjack articles and an online Blackjack game.
The following servers offer on-line Blackjack games with no program download and no Java, so should be compatible with webTV.
- Marc Brocoum's Blackjack
- The Blackjack 21 page offers a free single deck game using Las Vegas Strip Rules.
The following sites also offer on-line Blackjack games:
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Last updated 16th April 2008
