Also in September, and still in Mississippi, is the Palace Casino, which hosts the Red Zone Double Deck Blackjack Tournament on the 20th September, a tournament with a $10.000 guaranteed prize pool and a buy-in of $100.Īt the Kewadin, in Michigan, there is a Blackjack Blowout tournament towards the end of September. Also in Mississippi, and just a few days later, there is a $30.000 tournament in the Gold Strike Casino, which also plays host to a much bigger tournament in the middle of October, where a grand prize of $50.00 is on offer. It costs $100 to enter and the casino can accommodate a lot of players, so the competition is likely to be plentiful. This tournament has a prize pool worth over $50.000 and a guaranteed first prize payment of $20.000. In the Beau Rivage resort, located in Mississippi, there is a Card Shark tournament between the 7th and the 9th of September, just over a away from the publication of this article. The number of hands is often on the short side so that card counting will be ineffective and all play will be as fair as it can be. Players are all given a set amount of chips and a number of hands to play, and prizes are paid out to those who retain the most amount of chips at the end of the specified amount of hands. These work a little differently to standard poker or other card tournaments, but are just as fun. Those can get old fast, so to spice it up, and to let players test their mettle against other players, casinos often setup up blackjack tournaments. Blackjack isn’t just about single games against the dealer.

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