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Posted on 02/14/2026 4:54:48 AM PST by Leaning Right
New regulations will bar cardrooms from offering blackjack and other player-dealer games — a move opponents say will devastate the industry in California.
Under one of the two new rules, cardrooms cannot offer blackjack, the world’s most popular casino card game. Players would no longer “bust” by exceeding 21 points, and cardrooms may not use the name “blackjack” or include the number 21.
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I wonder who got paid off.
I post this as a curiosity only. My gambling habit these days does not extend past buying a Powerball once it goes over $500 million.
But I did teach myself card counting back in the day. Went to Atlantic City. Got wiped out.
You should demand your money back from your teacher.
Is “blackjack” somehow racist?
A friend and I played blackjack in Atlantic City years ago. We looked for the nicest, kindest, looking older woman we could. Sat at her table and she was so grandmotherly. We lost everything we brought. But she did it with such a nice smile.
Indian casino money is a staple for the Democrats, along with cartel money.
I remember under Clinton, they were so lax with the Indians there were shoot outs in the casinos between rival Indian gangs.
Kind of a preview of what they then brought to every American city for their drug gang pals.
The Indians OWN Minnesota, along with the Somalis.
The two will clash, I’ll be munching popcorn rooting for both to lose.
Gambling is as bad or worse than drugs.
But as long as .gov gets their cut it’s all good fun.
Some money changed hands
The word on the street is that there is a compromise in the works.
The game will no longer bear the racist tag Black Jack. The new name proposed is Red Jack.
However the Averdis native American tribe, that owns no casinos, is believed to object to the proposal. However since there are only 572 known and registered Averdis, the objection may not carry any weight.
I suspect that was part of the "reasoning" for the ban.
I know how that is, my buddies would look for a cutie who was at an empty table.She would welcome us and take our money. Said she was paying for college. This was in Reno. Before I was old enough to play. Exciting then -still found the card counting just made the dealer shuffle more often.
“It’s called Foxwoods, and at one point it was the largest Indian Casino in the country. “
The single largest casino in the WORLD at the time. The WORLD.
Mohegan Sun is just down the street and at the time it was the third largest in the world...
I used to be in the gaming business (the company I worked for invented the multi-game touchscreen gaming terminal). Connecticut was one of my territory’s. At shift change there were 4,000 staff leaving Foxwoods and 4,000 coming to work, the local PD had to do traffic control.
How the license was approved: Indian Gaming, as it’s called, is regulated by the Dept. of the Interior (DoI).
The Mashantucket Pequot’s compacted with the DoI and the state of Connecticut — promising a 10% (IIRC) take of the slot revenue GUARANTEED at a minimum of $10,000,000 per month! It was a deal too good to pass up for the governments involved. They actually lost money for a short time until the casino was running at 100%. The rake is still 10% but ONLY ON SLOTS! There is NO taxation on table games and that is where the BIG money is.
NY ‘Whales” stopped going to Atlantic City and went north.
I recall being escorted through the high rollers room - Black Jack tables - at one table a man was playing five hands at a $100,000 minimum per bet (and he had a few bets with large stacks of chips)...
In closing it didn’t really have to do with the number of applicants, it was the $10,000,000 monthly guarantee.
As an aside I had to be fingerprinted 14 times a year to hold licenses to ‘touch’ the internals of gaming machines in multiple jurisdictions...
“Have you ever been fingerprinted, buster?”
“Yes.”
“How many times???”
“Lost count after 50...”
“(silence)”
I had been an IT contractor at Foxwoods. I didn’t last too long because I asked too many questions. We got paid more than the IT staff that had gaming licenses, and we contractors didn’t have gaming licenses. There was friction. The only gaming equipment we could touch were the Keno machines (probably because the numbers themselves are determined elsewhere). It was easily the most disorganized IT operation I had ever seen for an organization of that size. Especially one built recently (late 1990s) and hadn’t bought out other companies. Foxwoods had three completely different systems operating. Some was Microsoft, I think some was IBM AS/400, and some was Borland (!) based. They were also just starting to try using ISDN just as it was going out of style (I could never get it to work).
Our group was headed by a 5’4” ex-Navy guy with an attitude (a lot of Navy guys in IT). When he announced they were implementing thin clients, and locking down all the user configurable settings, I raised my hand and asked if they could at least allow users to adjust the mouse speed, as it is very frustrating if it is too slow. That day I was told it was my last week.
On my last day, I turned in my badge, put $5 on Keno, won $5, and left. I beat the House, and I will never gamble in a casino again.
When I hear stories about Indians wanted to be respected, and have their traditions and customs preserved, I just think of the leggy blonde cocktail waitresses (or whatever they were called, I worked mostly in office areas), wearing clingy little teal and turquoise minidresses, matching high heel pumps, and one feather.
Between that and the giant glass warrior Indian glass sculpture with a loud recording bellowing something every fifteen minutes (and then the sprinklers came on [Rain chants, I guess]), I realized the Indians were plenty good at exploiting themselves, as long as THEY get the wampum.
I have an idea for a new game. Instead of Blackjack. We can call it “Noir Knave” or “16”. The game is based on Hexadecimals, and the “10”s are replaced with cards labeled “A”. All facecards are worth “A”. “Aces” are replaced with cards labeled “1|B”, as that card can be worth either. Dealer has to hit until he gets to 11. Anybody who exceeds 16(hex) loses, and that is called “going derriere”.
The engineers will love it.
You answered my question - as to whether or not this includes Indian casinos, I figured it didn’t since they are considered their own nations.
I remember years ago when they first started opening, they were not allowed to have slot machines - one-armed bandits - they brought them in in the middle of the night anyway. NO further action against them was taken.
This is a very very lucrative business for Indians, they advertise on TV and radio constantly in California.
california regulations define new card game called NOT-Blackjack, while outlawing blackjack ...
i couldn’t believe tat the article wasn’t from the babylon bee or an early april 1st joke ...
i heard that the the new name is “Rainbowjack”
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