Before I started Harlequin fun casino, I had never played Balckjack in my life. I was a dab hand at Roulette (having been lucky enough to have played many times on the tables in Las Vegas) but when it came to cards, I was a bit too scared to give it a go. I didn’t really understand Blackjack, and was a bit clueless as to the rules. I knew that was the fastest way to lose money, so I kept well away. But as soon as I got the Blackjack tables for Harlequin, I started to give it a go myself. Had I known just how easy it was to learn the rules of the game of Blackjack, I would have been far more inclined to play this game rather than Roulette for real money!
In a game of Roulette, you place your chips on the table before the ball lands. When the ball lands, the dealer will pay out if you were right. If not, you lose the lot. It’s really a game of chance from start to finish. In Blackjack, however, even though you have to place your bets before the cards are dealt, the option is there to stick with what you have been dealt, or to hit another card to try and up your chances of winning that hand. Granted, you might bust if you hit a new card, but you can, to some extent, calculate the risk of taking a new card. For example, if you are dealt a 2 and a 5, you may as well hit, because you’re not going to go higher than 17. (and the dealer has to stand on 17 as we all know) So even though the hand you were dealt was weak, you still get the chance to make things better.
This is just one of the rules that makes Blackjack a more favourable game when it comes to winning money.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I know there is no sure-fire way of winning Blackjack, (well, no sure fire way that is legal or doesn’t involve cheating anyway!) but I do think that you are more in control of your money when you are playing Blackjack than you are playing Roulette.
I must say though, it’s very easy to win big on the fun casino blackjack table. When you’re only playing for plastic chips and not real hard cash, it’s more likely that you’ll play big. There are two ways to rinse the Blackjack table. Option A, you keep placing huge bets, hoping to win so that you then have a huge stash to keep playing with and build gradually. Or option B, you play small with every bet, and hope you build your chip pile. Slow and steady so to speak. I have tried playing both ways, and I have to say, the only way I have ever won big bucks is with option A.
Now here lies the rub… I know this, and I have played Blackjack at home for fun enough tomes to know my own strategies and how they work for me, so why is it that now, when I go into a casino in Las Vegas now, I cannot bring myself to play big?!? The reason is, because it’s always harder to place big bets when you have your own hard earned cash to lose! I am too scared to play strategy A, so I end up playing strategy B, but because I continue to lose using strategy A, I keep putting down more money, hoping my luck will change. At the end of the night, I look at what I have spent, and I cannot help thinking, what if I had put half of my stash down on one had and won it? I guess I’ll never ever know!
So I utter this warning to all our clients who have won big on the casino tables at a party, wedding reception or corporate function. Just remember, always play strategy A in a real casino if you can afford it. In my opinion, it’s the only way to really win big. In the game of blackjack, fortune really does favour the brave! Well… sometimes!!
