Blackjack Tournaments There are many ways poker is played. You can play at home in an informal manner with friends. All the money in the pot is taken by the winner. Or you can play cash games in the glitzy setting of a club or casino. For that you pay a price in the form of a rake taken from every pot. Or you can play in poker tournaments where all entrants start with the same chip stack and the last person standing wins the announced fixed prize. World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour are the most popular of these. There are not as many options for blackjack. You really cannot play blackjack for real money at home because the game is played against the house. At casinos there is no rake from the bets. The blackjack odds and payouts are designed to give the casino an edge, often referred to as house edge. Blackjack tournaments exist, both online and in brick-and-mortar settings, but are not as popular as poker tournaments. World Series of Blackjack was ...