A few online casino tips about playing blackjack

As part of our ongoing series of articles providing online casino tips to help new casino games players get the best from their online gambling experience, this month here at onlinecasino.ie we will take a closer look at one of the more traditional casino games, blackjack. The casino game of blackjack is popular because of its simplicity and speed, but there are some important tips which can improve your chances of winning. For those who have not played blackjack at an online casino we have detailed the rules on our casino games pages, but the most important thing to remember is that the objective of the game of blackjack is to beat the dealer’s hand and not, repeat not to get 21. Certainly a hand of 21 or blackjack will win you the game, but far too many new blackjack players are tempted to take unnecessary risks to try to get to 21 when their existing hand already has a good chance of winning. When considering whether to draw a card in blackjack, first take account of the dealer’s open card and then think about the odds of the next card improving your hand or busting. Remember if you bust you have no chance of winning. When playing the casino game of blackjack there is one factor in your favour, and that is that unlike the player the dealer must draw a card on 16, and there is a 60% statistical chance that the dealer will bust. Equally if the dealer is holding a 10, the most common combination of two cards in blackjack is 20 because there are eleven combinations of cards which make a hand of 20, plus of course the possibility of an ace. We are not suggesting that you need to get your calculator out every time you play blackjack at an online casino, just that you make yourself aware of the odds of you improving your hand and perhaps more importantly whether you need to.