Blackjack Tips for Beating the Dealer

  Online Blackjack Perfect Pairs   One of the main grouses of online blackjack players is that the payouts as a multiple of the bet are minuscule. The normal payout for a win is even money whereas a blackjack win pays one and a half times the bet. The maximum payout in roulette is 35:1 and that in video slots can go to 10,000: 1. These players realise that the probabilities of these maximum payouts are comparatively much lower and also that the average returns as a whole in roulette and slots are lower than in online blackjack. Yet, they miss the adrenalin pumping that these other online casino games offer.   Games suppliers to online casinos, like Microgaming, Playtech, and Realtime Gaming, have filled this breach through blackjack games with side bets that provide the thrill and expectancy of possible big wins. The most popular of these games is Blackjack Perfect Pairs. There are many variants of this online blackjack game with different payout tables and I have done some search

  Online Blackjack vs Land Casino Blackjack Internet forums are filled with articles comparing online casinos to land casinos and those differences apply to blackjack as well. I will skip those differences and focus on two that pertain specifically to blackjack.   Blackjack Strategy Cards   In an earlier blackjack blog I had pointed out that it is illegal to use devices of any sort to aid gameplay at land casinos. However, there is no such injunction when you play blackjack at online casinos. It is perfectly legal, and moral, to take advantage of blackjack strategy cards when you play online, especially if you are a novice blackjack player. In fact, you are doing yourself a serious injustice if you do not use this invaluable tool. The blackjack strategy card is a tabular format that lists the dealer’s face up card in the row header and the player’s hand total in the column header. You can then read the optimum blackjack move in the corresponding table cell. This way, you will