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- There are four casinos in the greater Kansas City area: Harrah’s, Ameristar, Argosy, and Isle of Capri, plus the Frontier Casino in St. Joseph, which is about 50 miles north of Kansas City. The Kansas City casinos are all located in the north side of the K.C. Metro area and all within about 15 miles of each other.
About Blackjack Tournaments
In the last decade, poker has gone through a tremendous boom thanks to the rising popularity of poker tournaments. In fact, for many people, high stakes tournaments might be the first thing they think of when they think of poker. On the other hand, blackjack is mostly known as a table game played in the casino, not a competitive endeavor where you compete against fellow players.
But blackjack has a tournament scene too, and it’s one that’s just as exciting and competitive as the world of tournament poker. In a blackjack tournament, the goal isn’t just to beat the dealer – though you probably will have to do that more than a few times to win. Instead, you’re competing against the other players at your table to see who can amass the most chips in a certain number of hands.
Typically, a blackjack tournament will consist of elimination rounds (though single table blackjack tournaments do exist), in which the top one or two finishers out of a table of about five to six players will advance to the next round. At the beginning of each round, each player starts with the same number of chips. Typically, a round will last somewhere between 20-30 hands, after which the players are ranked by the number of chips they hold.
Immediately when sitting down and playing in a blackjack tournament, you’ll notice that some things are different from your typical blackjack game. For instance, the dealer doesn’t always start dealing from the “first base” position (the player to the dealer’s left). Instead, the first position changes from hand to hand, with a button moving around the table, much like the dealer button in poker. This helps keep the competition on a more equal footing; players who act last are at a significant advantage, since they can see how much their opponents have bet, and see how their hands are doing before they need to make any decisions of their own. This is an especially critical advantage on the final hand.
Blackjack Tournament Strategy
Not surprisingly, blackjack tournaments require very different strategies than when you’re just playing blackjack against the casino. Since your goal is to accumulate more chips than your opponents, it is sometimes wise to do things which you would never do when simply playing blackjack at a regular table.
One of the key strategic concepts in blackjack tournaments is that players will tend to have very similar results in terms of winning or losing hands. While it is far from a guarantee, hands where a few of the players win against the dealer and a few lose are less common than hands where the whole table beats a busted dealer, or the dealer defeats all (or nearly all) of the players. This means that when you gain chips, you can expect the other players to be generally gaining chips as well; and when the dealer is running over you, chances are that the other players at your table won’t be faring much better.
This concept led to the discovery that one very effective strategy in blackjack tournaments was simply to do the opposite of what the rest of the table was doing. For instance, if the rest of the table is making small, conservative wagers, this strategy suggests that you should make large wagers instead. This works because, in general, the players making bets of similar sizes will end up with a similar number of chips. Meanwhile, you – as the only player at the table trying something different – will likely find yourself with a very different amount of chips. This might put you in first place, or it might put you in last, depending on how the dealer treats you. But having a 50/50 shot at first at a table of five or six players is a pretty good deal.
These days, blackjack tournament strategy has evolved to the point where these easily exploitable tables are less common, which means more advanced strategy is required. Most good players will generally bet small, but look for some good spots to make larger bets, especially when they can act last and see what their opponents are doing first. When in the lead, players often switch to bets of moderate size (especially when acting early), so that their opponents can’t get the full benefit of playing in an “opposite” manner. As round progresses, it also becomes important to calculate just how much you’ll need to bet to get yourself into a position to advance, without risking so much that you won’t have later opportunities should you lose a given hand.
Blackjack tournament strategy eventually comes down to a balancing act: you must take enough risks to win, but only when the rewards are big enough to justify taking those risks. Advanced blackjack tournament strategy goes even further, taking steps to optimize bet sizing, pointing out when to ignore basic strategy because you need to take bigger risks (or need to play extra conservatively), and much more.
Major Blackjack Tournaments
In recent years, several blackjack events have gained considerable notoriety. Perhaps the most well-known to television audiences was the World Series of Blackjack, a competition televised on the Game Show Network. This mostly closed tournament does allow players to enter through satellites, and the top prize – which started at $100,000 in the show’s first season – rose to $500,000 over subsequent seasons, the last of which was aired in 2007. GSN also briefly aired a series known as the World Blackjack Tour, and UltimateBet ran the Ultimate Blackjack Tour for two seasons.
However, unlike with poker, most major blackjack tournaments are not televised. Still, blackjack tournaments are commonly held in major casinos around the world, often with large prize pools that can range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. Blackjack tournaments are also spread regularly at many online casinos, meaning you can play in an exciting tournament from the convenience of your own home!
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High Card Flush
High card Flush is the only non-blackjack table game to come along that is non-poker based. It is suits-based and requires no knowledge of poker to play.
- Flush: Compare your Flush to the paytable for great odds.*
- Straight Flush: Win big with a Straight Flush. The larger the Straight Flush, the more you win!*
- Ante: Win when your Flush is higher than the Dealer, or if the Dealer doesn’t qualify.
- Raise: Make up to 3X your Ante wager, depending upon your Flush. The better your hand, the more you can wager! (Dealer must qualify to win).
*The Flush and Straight Flush wagers are independent of the outcome of the Ante and Raise.
Blackjack
The classic game in which the player tries to draw to 21, or closer to 21, than the dealer without going over (busting). Each player starts with two cards face up, then is allowed to hit (take another card) or stay (play that hand). The dealer starts with two cards as well, but one is face up and the other face down. Face cards (jack, queen, king) are worth 10, and aces are worth 1 or 11 (player choice). Receiving an ace and a 10 on your first two cards is the lucrative hand known as “blackjack.” Additional bets like “splitting” and “doubling down” are also available on certain hands.
Craps
Possibly the most exciting game on the floor, Craps often draws the biggest crowds. The game appears complicated to the newcomer, but the premise is actually quite simple. Players wage money on the outcome of one roll, or a series of rolls, of two dice by the “shooter.” The game is played in rounds, and the first roll of each new round is called the “come-out roll.” An array of player bets is available both for the come-out roll, as well as each additional roll, with payouts dependent on the likelihood of each outcome.
Roulette
Perhaps the simplest table game of all. In Roulette, a croupier spins the wheel in one direction then places and spins a ball in the opposite direction. After a number of revolutions, the ball eventually falls into one of 38 slots. If the ball lands in a number or color where you placed a bet prior to the spin, you win.
21+3
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21+ 3 is a fun, exciting variation of the standard casino game of blackjack. After making a wager on the blackjack hand, you may make a side wager that is based on a 3 card poker hand.
The side wager is a bet that your original two cards combined with the dealer’s up card will combine for a winning poker hand. If the three cards combine to make a flush, straight, three of a kind, or a straight flush you win. All winning side wagers are paid 9 to 1.
The game is dealt like a regular blackjack game with 2 cards to each player and one card up and one card down to the dealer. At this point the dealer will take all losing 3 card wagers and pay all winning wagers 9 to 1. After all 3 card wagers are settled, the hand continues with standard blackjack procedures.
Double Deck blackjack
The object of the game is to have the total point value of the cards dealt to the player exceed the total of the dealer’s hand without going over 21. When the player draws cards totaling more than 21, the hand “breaks” and automatically loses.
There is no mid-shoe entry allowed in double deck blackjack. In other words, you must begin play with the first hand after the shuffle. If you choose to sit out a hand, you must wait until the next shuffle to re-enter the game.
Craps free Craps
Craps Free Craps is a fun and exciting variation on the casino game of Craps. Craps Free Craps offers several wagers not available on a standard Craps game.
In the game of Craps 2, 3, and 12 on the come out roll are losing rolls for a pass line bet. Likewise, a come out roll of 11 is a winner on the pass line. In Craps Free Craps these rolls become the “point” and pass line betwins when the number is rolled again before a 7.
Texas Hold'em
Each player and the dealer are dealt two cards. Five community cards are displayed in the center of the table. Players use their two-card hand along with the five community cards to make the best possible five card poker hand.
Ultimate Texas Hold'em
Ultimate Texas Hold’em features heads-up play against the dealer and an optional bonus bet. This game gives you several advantages:
- The earlier you bet, the more you can bet.
- You don’t have to fold until you see all the community cards.
- The Trips bonus pays odds if your final five-card hand is a three-of-a-kind or better.
Omaha high-low
A maximum of ten players are allowed per table.
In High-Low Split Eight or Better poker, the player with the highest ranking five-card Poker hand and the player with the lowest ranking five-card Poker hand, will divide the pot equally.
Pai Gow
Pai-Gow Poker Fortune Bonus is identical to the authorized game of Pai Gow Poker with the exception of the optional Fortune “Bonus Wager.” The object of the game is for the player, using all seven cards dealt, to create a qualifying five card poker hand of a Straight or better.
Three card poker
Easy to learn and fun to play, Three-Card Poker has gained enormous popularity in casinos. The game actually consists of two games: Ante-and-Play (in which you play the dealer to see who has the highest hand) and PairPlus (in which you simply wager on whether or not you'll be dealt a pair or better).
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Seven Card Stud
Stud is characterized by players having one or more face up, individual cards. Seven card Stud is the most popular form, and the only type discussed in these rules. Seven card Stud is played high, low, and high-low split. To avoidrunning out of cards on a deal, all seven card Stud games normally will be restricted to a maximum of eight players.
Mississippi Stud
Mississippi Stud is a five-card poker game that lets players bet up to 10 units on a single hand. In Mississippi Stud, players compete against a paytable, not against the dealer, and win if their hand is pair of jacks or better.