Beginners guide to first easy free $100

Take for example 888.com’s sign-up bonus; You deposit $200 and get 100% bonus, so you start playing with $400. The Wagering Requirements (WR) are Bonus x 20 = $4,000.

(Note: DO NOT deposit by Neteller - otherwise WR is Bx50!)

The house edge on their Blackjack is approx 0.6% which means after wagering $4,000 you should only lose around $24! However, like all casino games you will see 'streaks' of good & bad luck, and it is possible you will actually make some profit, or lose more than $24 of the bonus money. It's VERY unlikely that you would lose more than $100, so making $100+ profit is a near-certainty! Note: You need to 'flat bet' (bet the same (small) amounts on every hand) or something close, and play close to best strategy for this to work. (If you're not sure how to play Blackjack, see guide below).

There is a very small chance you might get labeled a 'bonus abuser' for using this method, but it is not against their T&C's so the worst that will happen is you will get paid, but wont get any future bonus offers. Their on-going offers are very poor anyway, so that's no big loss!

To help prevent this, my suggestion is that you do your wagering in several different visits to the casino and that you have a 'little dabble' at other games in-between sessions.

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Other casinos where you can do the same or a similar thing:

Intercasino – the worlds favourite casino!

100% to $100 every month! WR Bx50 (if playing Blackjack)

William Hills – Kasino King’s favorite casino! J

100% to $80/£50 and 100% to $40/£25 monthly. WR Bx20

Ladbrokes – Best UK based Microgaming casino!

100% to £100. WR Dx8 – but play Stud, not Blackjack – see why here.

Note: I do not normally condone this type of low risk play for bonus advantage (and certainly never do it myself these days), but I suggest it here for beginners to get the ‘feel’ of online casinos and a taste of how easy it can be to profit from some of the good bonuses!

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Total beginners guide to BlackJack

There are over 360 different variations of Blackjack involving anything from 1 to 8 decks of cards, and various other rules relating to things like dealers hole card, surrender, insurance, splits, double downs, etc… But don’t worry about that – I’m just going to cover the basics!

The most common types follow the same basic rules;

You are dealt 2 cards face up. The dealer is dealt 1 card face up & one face down (the ‘hole’ card).

Ace counts as 1 or 11, Jack, Queen & King count as 10, all other cards as per their spots.

If the dealer is showing and Ace or 10 card he ‘peeks’ at his hole card – if he’s made a BlackJack (Ace and 10) the round is over and all players lose unless they also have Blackjack which pushes (you keep your bet).

Otherwise, you then decide whether to draw (request another card), split or double (subject to game rules), or stand with your hand in an attempt to beat the dealers hand with a total of 21 or less.

Ø If you beat the dealer, or he busts – you win your bet at odds of 1:1.

Ø If you have BlackJack you win at 1.5:1

Ø If you both have the same total, you push (i.e you keep your money).

Ø If the dealer beats your hand you lose your bet.

Blackjack is almost an even money game - the house edge is nearly always much lower than 1%.

What that means is if you played 100 $1 hands with a house edge of 1% you should on average lose just $1. That is, assuming you play best strategy.

The full table of best strategy should be learnt by all players wishing to minimise their potential loss, but these tables contain 300 possible combinations of player & dealer’s cards so can be a bit daunting to the new gambler! So to get you started I have produced the ‘basic’ table below.

In the table below ‘Your hand total’ is the sum of your cards, either as first dealt (2 cards), or after you have drawn more cards.

Simplified basic strategy table

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Your Hand Total	Dealer showing	Action
2 (Ace-Ace)	Any	Split
3 to 8	Any	Hit
9, 10 or 11	3, 4, 5 or 6	Double
9, 10 or 11	Any other card	Hit
12, 13, 14, 15, 16	2, 3, 4, 5 or 6	Stand
12, 13, 14, 15, 16	A, 7, 8, 9 or 10	Hit
17+ (except 9-9)	Any	Stand

7-7 (pair)	7 or less	Split. Otherwise play as 14 above
8-8 (pair)	8 or less	Split. Otherwise play as 16 above
9-9 (pair)	9 or less	Split. Otherwise play as 18 above

Note: This is simple basic strategy for beginners and NOT best possible strategy!

Using this table will increase the house edge by a fraction of a percent (i.e. not much!)

Key to Terms:

Stand: Keep the hand you have.

Hit (or Draw): Request another card from the dealer.

Double: Buy a card by doubling your original bet. Note: This can only be done once, on the first extra card you request (i.e. your 3^rd card).. After doubling you can not get any more cards – what you have is your final hand. (Some variations only allow doubling on 9 10 or 11).

Split: If your original cards are a pair, you can split them into 2 hands. You must add another bet to the same value as your original for your second hand, and you will be dealt 1 new card onto each hand.

Some variations allow you to split again if you get another pair, but most do not. Your new hands are played in the same way as an original hand except if you split Ace’s you will usually be given one new card only, and can not draw more. If you get a 10 on your ace it counts as 21 only – not a Blackjack.

Insurance: If the dealer is showing an ace, you will be offered 'insurance' against him making a blackjack. This costs exactly half your original bet and pays out at 2:1. This means that if the dealer does make a blackjack & your hand loses, you get all your money back for that hand. If he does not make it, you lose the insurance money. Insurance is considered a losing bet by experienced blackjack players because the chance of dealer BJ is only 4/13 (or 1 in every 3.25) hands therefore you will lose more than you will gain by taking insurance.

Why play?

If the house edge means I will lose $1 for every $100 wagered, why should I play it?

A good question! Well of course, all casino games have a house edge and in fact, Blackjack has among the lowest. Remember casinos are businesses that exist only for the purpose of making money for the owners – not for giving it away!

And yet some players claim to make consistent profit playing it. So how do they do that? Well one thing is for certain it is definitely not by using any ‘guaranteed winning systems’. There is no such thing. If you sat and played any casino game continuously for any significant length of time using any system in the world you will lose in the long run. It is mathematically impossible to beat them, period.

If anyone ever developed a way to beat the odds it would soon be all over the internet, everyone would be doing it and the casinos would remove or amend the game to stop it.

There are only 2 ways to beat the casino:-

Money Management (as explained on Winning page) or use of Bonuses (as explained above).

Best possible strategy table

Page created: Nov-2006 Last full review: 26/03/07. Last update: 02/02/07