Blackjack Tournaments
A blackjack tournament is an interesting twist on your classic blackjack game and it has become increasingly popular in the past couple of years. The basic principle is that you are competing against other players for a shared prize pool. There are a couple of different ways that you will find with online blackjack tournaments.
The first type of tournament usually involves 7 players at a table with several tables in the tournament. After a certain number of hands (usually 10), the player with the lowest total will be eliminated. This will continue until there is a winner.
The second type of blackjack tournament that you will find online involves just you playing against the dealer and you are trying to get on to the leaderboard for highest total. This either is accomplished by giving you a certain number of hands to play (like 50) or you will have a certain time limit to get the highest score. This time limit can be short, like 30 minutes, or you have until the tournament is over to post the highest score.
Find out more information including blackjack tournament strategy and more information on the what are blackjack tournaments page.
Current Blackjack Tournaments
I have previous posts that reference the blackjack tournaments at RTG casinos such as Doyle's Room, ClubUSA or Rushmore Casino. They no longer offer blackjack tournaments. Here are a couple of places that do:
5Dimes
5Dimes
is my new favorite place to play blackjack tournaments. The tournaments
held here are the multi-table blackjack tournaments that I referenced above.
These tournaments are held daily. If you would like to see 5dimes current
blackjack schedule including time and entry fees, click
here.
Here is the way these tournaments work. Each player will have to bet between the minimum and maximum allowed per hand and try to win the most chips. The tournament will consist of a set number of hands, a specific number of decks and up to 8 players can sit at a table.
Take a look at this 5Dimes Blackjack Tournament Review for more information.
GamingClub
For
the UK and European Blackjack visitors to the site, you can play at the
1st online casino in existence -
GamingClub. They offer everything a blackjack player could ever
want. In addition to blackjack tournaments, they offer features such as
live dealers and
multiplayer
blackjack tables.
As for there blackjack tournaments, they have two types - Sit 'n' Go and scheduled tournaments. Here are some reasons for joining GamingClub's blackjack tournaments: Unlike almost any other casino out there, GamingClub allows card-counting at the blackjack tournament tables. They also let you choose between 2, 4 and 6 decks.
Gaming Club offers a Daily Freeroll Tournament to give players a chance to improve their skills for free. These games are suitable for all experience levels from novice to advance.
BetUS
BetUS
is another casino that offers daily blackjack tournaments. They are much
different than 5Dimes and almost more like a slot tournament. Everyone starts
out with the same amount in their balance and you have 24 hours to accumulate
the largest total. You must complete 50 hands in order to qualify. Buy-ins
are between $5 and $15 and re-buys are between $5 and $10 depending on the
day of the week.
Online Vegas Casino
Online
Vegas offers 24 hour 99¢ blackjack tournaments ever Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at 8PM EST. You will be staked with 50 credits and highest score
wins the prize pool will be a pot percentage, which pays the top 41 player
scores. If you bust out, you can re-buy for $2.49.
Online Vegas alternates the tournament game between Vegas Strip Blackjack and Perfect Pair Blackjack, where you can place a sidebet that pays out when you pair your first two cards.
As of May 2011, Online Vegas is no longer accepting new customers from the United States; although current players can still participate in these blackjack tournaments.
Bet365 Mobile Blackjack Tournament
March 5th, 2012About every 2 to 3 months or so, Bet365 will come out with special tournaments for their mobile casino players. These aren’t the same type of tournaments that I have been listing here; but I haven’t seen any other new blackjack tournaments for a while.
Tomorrow, 6 March 2012, Bet365 will be hosting a 24-hour long mobile blackjack tournament that begins at 00:00 GMT (midnight tonight, London time) and ends at 23:59 GMT. There will be a total of $1,000 in prize pool money available to win with the 1st place winner receive $200.
To be eligible to participate in this blackjack tournament, you must do the following (Bet365 does not accept US players, sorry):
1) Go to Bet365 Mobile by clicking here or by going to http://casino.bet365.com/en/ and clicking on the Mobile Casino link.
2) You will see their three most popular mobile games listed: European Roulette, Blackjack and Gold Rally. Click on the link that says Download Now below the Blackjack game screenshot as shown to the right.
3) The Select Game and Select Country will be Blackjack and United Kingdom by default. Change the Country if you do not live in the UK.
4) Enter in your Mobile Number starting with the International Dialing Code followed by the phone number. Then click on Submit.
5) You will receive a Service/Push message on your phone (similar to an SMS message). Open or read the message.
6) Select the option to download or retrieve the message. You may have to choose a location to save the application. The application will start to download.
7) Once the download is completed, either open the game straight away or you may have to find the mobile blackjack game in your Games or Applications section of your mobile phone.
The next step is very important!
8) In order to participate in the blackjack tournament, you must make a deposit of at least $50 into your casino account during this 24-hour period.
Once the tournament begins at midnight tonight (GMT), you will have 24-hours to collect as many Comp Points as you can on this mobile blackjack game. You will earn 1 Comp Point for every $10 that you wager on mobile blackjack.
The person who has accumulated the most Comp Points in this 24-hour period will receive $200. The prizes for the following players will be $150, $120, $100, $80, $70, $60, $50, $40, $30 and 5 players will receive $20.
I know that this isn’t the same as the other blackjack tournaments where you are facing other players; but if you are looking to have a chance to win some money, I would suggest you give the mobile blackjack tournament a chance.
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