Online blackjack is a fun and easy way to start getting into online casino games. If you already know how to play blackjack from playing it in live casinos, you’ll have no problem with the online version, since the games play almost identically. With online blackjack, there are a few important tips to keep in mind.

Counting Cards in Online Blackjack

In most cases, you shouldn’t bother trying to count cards in online blackjack. Card counting is based on knowing the composition of the deck, knowing how many ten-point cards relative to other cards, and in most online blackjack scenarios, the deck is effectively infinite, so card counting techniques will not work.

Basic Strategy in Online Blackjack

Basic strategy, on the other hand, works in any blackjack game. If you don’t know basic strategy by heart, you can always call up a basic strategy chart on the Internet and keep it next to the playing screen for easy reference. Using basic strategy, even if you don’t know it by heart, is perfectly legal, and keeps the house edge down.

Hunches in Online Blackjack

Playing hunches will only lose you money in the long run. Hit, stand, double or split based on correct strategy, not on what you “know” is coming. The random number generator in the software doesn’t create a card until you act, so there is nothing “coming” for you to know; the card simply springs into existence when you ask for it.

Insurance in Online Blackjack

Under conventional blackjack rules, insurance is a sucker bet. You should never take it under any circumstances.

Elimination Blackjack, invented by Russ Hamilton, is popular in many casinos and it is somewhat similar to poker tournaments. At least in the way that you play at a “card table” (and it does contain elements of No Limit Texas Hold’Em) against other players – the last one left is the winner.

The Rules of the Game

A game of elimination blackjack is usually thirty hands long and it each player will start the event with chips worth between $10,000 and $100,000 – all depending on the one organizing the game. The rules of the game are as follows:

·    The house must stand on hard 17 and above, and it must hit on soft 17.
·    Pairs may split up to four times. The only exception is aces.
·    Six decks are used.
·    All the bets have to stay within the allowed minimum and maximum betting numbers.
·    If the player surrounds their hand they get half of the original bet back.
·    If the house’s card is an ace you are allowed to buy insurance.
·    You can only double down with two cards.
·    No more than seven players can play at the same table.
·    You have to make a decision within twenty five seconds if it’s not an elimination hand – in this case you have forty five seconds to make up your mind.

The eliminations part

There are three ways to get eliminated from an elimination blackjack tournament:
·    You lose all of your chips
·    You don’t have enough chips to meet the minimum requirements
·    You are the player with the fewest amount of chips after a certain number of played hands.

The Winner

The last player left at the table, or the player with the most chips left after 30 played hands, is the winner!

I wonder how we will communicate between businesses in the future.  Just think how email has grown and is now widely used as a business communication tool.  But where will be in 10-20 years and what will use to talk to each other or market our products?

Social media has spread so fast and especially with younger users, who will be driving the business of the future.  So I’m sure we will use social media more.  Seems pretty informal to me.  But then I suppose that email must have seemed very informal after all the formal typed business letters that used to be used for inter-business communication.  I somehow can’t imagine a CEO twittering to a business colleague… it just sounds crazy!!

I’m sure that hand held devices will get used even more and develop even more fancy applications or functions.  Mastering the funtions on an iPhone is difficult enough for me!!

Yet despite all the gadgets sometimes communication is no better!