Blackjack SNGs?

skaboomizzy · #1 07-31-2005, 12:19 PM

Is there anyplace online to play blackjack tournaments against four or five other players? I'm thinking of the TV-type format... 25 hands, rotating button.

#2 07-31-2005, 12:48 PM

never heard of such a thing

HavanaBanana · #3 07-31-2005, 01:14 PM

I think it is 30 hands, or at least thats how many in the play money game I just entered.
One of our poker rooms, The River Belle Poker Room, got a brand new Multi Player Casino, with 5 or 15 players Sng's.

I guess the kind of EV you might get depends on the ignorance of your opponents, I have seen people go Up on an 8 in a higher lower game from 1-10 for more than $100 000.

Double down on 14 might be right last hand!

Take the lead, bet minimum and hope the dealer get BJ rest of the hands!

Ooops went broke in 5th place, guess I gambled too much!

ToT

skaboomizzy · #4 07-31-2005, 05:01 PM

River Belle, huh? Cool. I will check this out later tonight.

blendedsuit · #5 07-31-2005, 05:17 PM

starluck casino has these i believe.

MicroBob · #6 07-31-2005, 05:37 PM

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I have seen people go Up on an 8 in a higher lower game from 1-10 for more than $100 000.

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I have no idea what this means.
Do you mean they are doubling-down on a hard-8?

actually blackjack tournaments can be +EV with the appropriate strategy.

Stanford Wong (one of the blackjack card-counting pioneers) wrote a prettty decent book on casino tourney strategy (blackjack as well as craps and 3-card poker tournament strategy for example).

It's not JUST about playing against terrible blackjack players (although this is kind of similar to poker-tourneys in that regard I suppose).

a couple of the BJ tournaments I've seen on TV have been kind of interesting but weren't done THAT well imo. But they do focus on the bet-size pretty heavily which one needs to do.

One of the guys at the final-table of the BJ tourney on the travel channel was a guy I dealt too when I used to deal BJ. He came to our casino in Tunica when he had a $125k BJ tourney that used a pretty mediocre format imo.
I was dealing the regular cash games and he was at my table wearing his name-badge (which is how I specifically remembered the guy when I saw him on the final-table of the one on TV....he had the same name as a high-school gym teacher I had so it stuck in my head).

I guess this guy (Mel Edwards is his name) must frequently hits some of the bigger BJ tournaments that are out there.

I too would be interested in playing an occasional online BJ tournament.
I have played a couple of live BJ $40 tournaments (back before I even knew how to play poker actually) but didn't get very far. Made the 2nd level a couple of times but never got to the final-table.

FatTony21 · #7 07-31-2005, 07:14 PM

globalplayercasino.com has blackjack tournament SNGs, just like you're looking for, plus a weekly multiable tournament every Wednesday. On top of that, their customer service is actually helpful.