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.
- 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.
- Colin T Fagras's
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.
- 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.
- The Blackjack
Tournament site provides information and advice about
tournaments in which the object is not to win money from the house
but to end the session with more chips than the other players.
- 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.
- Game Account's
Tournament Blackjack is an online "duplicate" Blackjack game.
You compete not against the bank but against other players dealt the
same cards against the same bankers' cards, and win by getting a
better result than the others who played the same deals as you.
- 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 winneronline.com
site, which has rules and a free java Blackjack game.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
Blackjack and other casino games can be played on line for real money
at
49er Casino. This casino, which uses RealTime Gaming software, aims
for a Vegas feel, with Yosemite Sam as its mascot.
Hit or Stand is a free blackjack
computer game and trainer that teaches you basic strategy while you
play.
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.
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:
