Somewhere in this desert town there has to be a legal description for the game of blackjack.
I think that that description would be in one or more of the Gaming Control files but I have yet to check that out due to way too many casino visits trying to find the game that is played in the same manner as originally played by the likes of Benny Binion, and Lefty, and Smugs, and Knuckles, etc., etc.
But somewhere in the recent past, some of these new town guys have been able to take the game of blackjack and change it to fit their needs which needs are noticeably adverse to the needs of their customers.
Just a few years back these 'changes' would have been considered ... Cheating!
But today these changes are the new way of doing business!
Here's what I'm getting at ........
I believe that somewhere in the original rules of blackjack there is a 'rule' that the casino must pay 3 to 2 for any player who gets a blackjack on their first two cards.
That means if you play a buck and get a blackjack, the casino owes you a buck and a half.
Or it you bet with a five dollar chip and get a blackjack, the casino owes you $7.50.
And a $10 bet would earn you $15 if you got a blackjack.
This is all very basic stuff ..... BUT I see a lot of people playing blackjack who have no idea what a blackjack payoff is supposed to be. They have no idea when I say 3 to 2? And they are perfectly satisfied when they get even money!
Pure stupidity! Pure stupidity! I gotta repeat .... Stupidity!
And those casinos who pay off a blackjack with even money always have an excuse .....
"You can place an additional side bet and get 3 to 1 of your first two cards equal 20."
"We give you 3 to 1 if you get three sevens!"
"You get a punch card if for every ten blackjacks you make within a 24 hours time frame!"
"We deal one deck!"
And on and on they go with lots of dumb excuses why they won't pay you what they should be paying you. (See above),
SO the way things are proceeding today ..... You blackjack players are paying the casino some of your own money every time you get a blackjack.
Yes! You are paying the casino when you get a blackjack if you are playing at any table that does not pay you 3 to 2 for a 21 on the first two cards.
If you are playing a dollar table and get a blackjack, they will pay you a dollar but they actually owe you $1.50. So they just made fifty cents.
If you are playing a five-dollar table and get a blackjack, they will pay you five-dollars but they actually owe you $7.50. So you just paid that casino $2.50.
So you end up paying fifty cents for every dollar you bet when you get a blackjack.
And the casinos appear to be getting away with this for two very simple reasons....
1. Blackjack players are very stupid gamblers.
2. The Gaming Commission appears to have no concern if the casino refers to it as something other than Blackjack even though it's actually blackjack. It appears that a 'side bet' option' on a blackjack table where gamblers are playing blackjack makes it something else other than blackjack'.
Ot maybe it's much more simpler ..... Maybe the original rules of the game never specified the pay-offs so the casinos can make their own rules and pay whatever they want to pay.
And the casinos have come to realize that the majority of today's blackjack players have no idea what a blackjack player received when he got a blackjack when blackjack was played in the manner in which it was originally intended.
REMEMBER THIS .... If you play blackjack at any table where a blackjack payoff is less than 3 - 2, you are paying the casino for your blackjack in addition to the normal house percentage.
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