Blackjack Ballroom
is one of the MicroGaming casinos offering blackjack game. Single Deck is used which is
excellent, because you can easily keep track of
the cards and estimate your chances via card counting. However, the cards
are reshuffled after every round that makes it quite difficult to
keep track of the cards. The house edge is
about 0.1% which is incredibly good. Blackjack Ballroom Casino
also offers a multi-hand blackjack with the same rules, except 5 decks instead of 1.
This increases a house edge to 0.57%. Betting limits are from $1 to $1,000. There are only
a few online
casinos letting you wager as high as this on blackjack.
In Blackjack Ballroom's basic version of the game you can play only one hand at the same time
(there is a multi-hand version too).
The dealer must stand on A-6 which is
standard. Doubling down is allowed only on 9, 10 and 11 which is standard for
land based casinos whereas online casinos usually allow you to double down about
any first pair. You are not
allowed to double down after you split a pair though. You may split pairs to 2 hands only
which is below average really, as some other online casinos allow you to split
cards up to 3 or 4 hands. However, Split Aces may be re-hit, which is a very good.
The dealer does not check
for Blackjack until all players are finished, so if the dealer does have a
Blackjack then all players will lose the total amount they've bet, including any
additional money from doubling or splitting (called European hole card rule)
which is very tough for the player and advantageous for the casino. No
surrender is available. Insurance is
offered if you think the dealer might have a Blackjack.
You can keep
general strategy while playing at Blackjack Ballroom and other MGS
online casinos or, better, see our
Microgaming Blackjack Strategy and
optimal strategies (with strategy cards) for most of the Blackjack versions of Microgaming
(see left menu).
Blackjack Ballroom offers huge 40% match bonus up to $400 free and high betting limits. Note that now
more and more casinos offer new enhanced Viper games. With the new
Viper software you can play in Expert Mode and get help when
you should draw... Some other casinos offering similar MicroGaming Blackjack game (new Viper game): River Belle
(up to $110 free with a purchase of $55),
Golden Tiger (up to $250 free) and
Crazy Vegas
casino
($10 free [no deposit required] plus up to $100 free plus 10-15% deposit match bonuses every month).
Today Microgaming casinos offers the following versions of Blackjack:
Vegas Strip, Vegas Downtown, Atlantic City Blackjack, European, Spanish,
Bonus BJ, Multi-Hand, High Limit, Tripple 7's Blackjack and Gold Series
versions (click
the links on the left menu bar to see the rules and basic strategies and
convenient strategy cards for
the selected games). There are also multi-hand and
multi-player BJ versions from Microgaming. Play free Flash-based
games - see free blackjack games in main menu on the left.
|
