There were about players in each event, and each round lasted about 55 minutes. Since the bank in such a tournament does not mind whether it wins or loses chips overall, fairly permissive rules for splitting and doubling could be used. Also, there was no reason to take measures against card counters, so cards were dealt from a single deck. Over these relatively long sessions of play the best players and card counters would win. Blackjack tournaments were out of favour from the late 's until the early 21st century, partly because casinos did not want to encourage the development of card counting skills.
The advantage of card counting was reduced by having rounds of only around 30 deals and by using multiple decks. This format proved popular and tournaments are now held at many casinos, notably the Million Dollar tournament and the televised World Series of Blackjack at the Las Vegas Hilton. A multi table tournament lasts for a number of rounds , each of which consists of a predetermined number of hands.
Each player begins each round with an equal value in chips. As in poker, the players take turns to be the starting player - the player who receives the first cards in the deal and makes the first betting decision. The role of starting player passes to the left after each hand. There is a minimum and maximum bet per hand, and all cards dealt to the players are visible to all players.
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You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. The tournament was an invitational, open to those who had taken Frank's Golden Touch Craps course. Anyone attending could observe that there were a lot of skilled shooters there. Did I participate? Yes I did. How did I do? Well, nothing to brag about. I came in third in the Make the Point Challenge. The big winner was my good friend Linda Mabry - a well known gambling writer from Biloxi, MS and a frequent contributor to this web site.
So thirty-eight years ago if someone would have told me that playing skills would diminish in tournament Blackjack but the new venue for playing skill in the 21st century would be in the game of Craps, I would have told them they were crazy. Yet, when things come around sometimes it's a surprise.
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