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These two games go hand in hand, and can be played simultaneously to great advantage. In online slots, you concentrate on reading the reels, looking up your combinations in the payout table and investing the record breaking jackpot. (more…)

Once you have gotten passed the pure newbie stage of elimination blackjack, you will notice a number of interesting situations that occur time and time again. One of them is when an elimination hand approaches, you’re the second shortest stack, the shortest stack moves all-in in desperation, loses and busts out - before the elimination hand even started. (more…)

There’s a new conversation piece you need to be updated on next time you go to a fancy dinner party. You may have heard the buzz in the street, or seen it happen in front of your eyes on CBS. A select group of people have even tried it out, and your faithful Spinner is one of those. Elimination Blackjack – it certainly has something to be said for it. (more…)

Have you seen those pictures of people swimming in a pool while playing chess? The board is put up on a narrow table just above the water surface. The players and their audience (mostly older men) hang around with just their heads sticking up from the water. (more…)

Online blackjack and online slots go hand in hand like a happy old couple. To the extent happy old couples still exist, that is. Or any old couples at all, for that matter. With today’s divorce rates not many couples are bound to grow old together. Then again, a lot of old people form new couples with other old people. I guess that’s a new species of old couple. But many of them choose not to live together, and maybe they don’t go hand in hand either. It’s so old-fashioned.

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Can I ask you something about blackjack? Last time I played a game of online blackjack, I managed to win around $50. I moved the money to a Pai Gow Poker table and although most of it was eventually gone, I had a long and plenty amusing time. (more…)

In online blackjack, the house has a small edge against you, but if you are playing towards a bonus you may turn the equation around and gain a certain edge against the house. Never mind that, with or without bonus online blackjack is a captivating game. Once you get into the habit of playing your basic strategy, standing, hitting or splitting depending on the situation, you find a nice and soothing flow of cards and chips, possibly together with a cultivated chat if you’re at a multiplayer table of online blackjack. (more…)

Okay, it was time to spend some time at the blackjack tables again. Since I’m a social animal I took a seat at the multiplayer blackjack tables at GoldenPalace.com. It’s nice having someone to chat with while you brood over your next smart move. (more…)