12 Feb 09 Spanish Blackjack
Spanish Blackjack is the name given to a variety of blackjack which uses standard decks of playing cards but only after removing the four number 10 cards. This leaves 48 cards in each deck instead of the usual 52 with just the face cards worth 10 points.
Most places deal cards from a shuffling machine containing between four and eight decks in a game, and the following rules normally apply:
• If (more…)
11 Feb 09 Victor Chandler Live Casino
A Victor Chandler Live Casino has opened and offers players the chance to enjoy their favourite games with live casino dealers. The live casino dealers are viewable thanks to the latest video streaming technology, and you can choose from Virtual View or Action View perspectives.
As you might expect, the Victor Chandler live casino dealers are all attractive and proficient at what they do, and as well being able to (more…)
10 Feb 09 Multi Hand Blackjack
Multi-hand blackjack is a game of blackjack in which you play multiple hands. For example, you could sit down at a table in a traditional casino and play two or three hands simultaneously, or you could play online and have even more hands.
It is important to remember that each hand in a game of multi-hand blackjack is treated separately. This means you will need to place a separate bet on each hand and make additional (more…)
09 Feb 09 Face Cards
Face cards are the ones that bear a picture on their face in a standard deck of cards, so comprise the Jacks, Queens and Kings. Each of these cards have a value of 10 in blackjack.
Since the invention of card counting, which views 10-value cards as being of particular importance, the number 10 has also been bundled together with face cards by many players, even though it technically isn’t one.
It was Dr. Edward Thorp (more…)
08 Feb 09 Slot Game Tomb Raider
Secret of the Sword
A new slot game tomb raider is now available for play at an online casino near you, and it is the best Lara Croft casino adventure yet; a 5 reel, 30 pay line video slots game from Microgaming and fully licensed by Eidos.
Three and a half years ago the first Tomb Raider slots game appeared and took the online casino world by storm. Secret of the Sword not only exceeds the standards set by that previous (more…)
07 Feb 09 Paddy Power Makeover
A Paddy Power makeover has made Ireland’s most famous online casino even better than it was before. And we’re not just talking about a quick facelift here. The site has undergone a complete overhaul.
Paddy Power Casino has been around since 2004, and even before this redesign it had a reputation for being accessible, user-friendly and, yes, a very enjoyable place to hang out. So what’s changed?
06 Feb 09 Blackjack Radar
A new piece of software known as Blackjack Radar is helping to make the game of blackjack even more popular than it used to be among online casino players. The aim of the Blackjack Radar software is to help players to maximise their chances of winning, and it does this by taking into account the online casino being visited and the exact variation of the blackjack game being played.
Having taken those two factors (more…)
05 Feb 09 Betfair World record
Online sports betting company Betfair have been officially recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records for their ‘living’ advertisement targeting Euro2008 visitors. If you look out of your window when flying into Vienna International airport you’ll not fail to spot the words “No.1 for football and still growing” which have been written with a variety of plants across fields with an area of more than (more…)
05 Feb 09 Card Counting
Card Counting in blackjack is based on mathematics and probability theory, but you don’t need to be a maths whiz or have the memory of an elephant to count cards. In this article we present a simple card counting technique that anyone can use to increase their chances of winning, but first let’s briefly explain how the method works.
Card counting establishes mathematically the degree to which the as-yet-undealt deck (more…)
03 Feb 09 Record Deal or No Deal Jackpot
A woman has won £965,725 playing Deal or No Deal at Jackpotjoy, smashing the previous record jackpot by over £330,000.
Emira B, who is 27 and from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, was shell-shocked when she won the record-breaking jackpot. “Thank you so much,” she said. “I’m in shock. It’s unbelievable. I’ve just told my family. They sort of believe me! They didn’t even know that I played. I told them (more…)
