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.
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 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 ...
Also possible that Vegas did this to move $$ back. Anyone who can afford BJack gambling can go to Vegas instead of piddling about in some Indian casino with corrupted rules.
Pi$$ on CaCaLand.
I did software development for a company that made grey market casino games and blackjack was our most popular. We had a jurisdiction down in the caribbean that had outlawed the name “Blackjack”, and “any card game where the goal was to get closest to 21”. We renamed our game, and changed the goal to 22, and adjusted the pay tables. (This after a bunch of math to make sure we weren’t cheating either side TOO much).
I suspect the same thing will be done here.
They should name it,
“Crackerjack”
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Never been in a California casino. Every morning I transfer from the Light Rail to the bus and sit in front of one for 9 minutes or so. Full of people. I remember that line from Casino “In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose. In the end, we get it all.” and I feel sorry for them.