Blackjack Online

CBS just aired the first episode of a ten-part series called The Ultimate Blackjack Tour today. It was a great show, and I'll definitely be watching UBT next week when it's on. The sponsors for the show included the websites bet21.net and playubt.com, both of which I'll write articles about shortly. Max Rubin was a great co-host, and he's always been one of my favorite gambling writers. Nikki Ziering looked fantastic as one of the hostesses, and dealer Michelle was fabulous-looking. (I like tall buxom women.)

Notable competitors on this week's UBT included Ken Smith, who I had the good fortune to meet in Vegas a couple of years ago, Hollywood Dave Stann, the "bad boy of blackjack", Big Chuck Gorson, Michael Castellano, who the announcers claimed was the best card counter in the world, poker player Miami John Cernuto, and Alex Brenes. They played this new Elimination Blackjack that I posted about last week.

I thought the presentation of the show was pretty interesting. There are 30 hands in an Elimination Blackjack tournament, and in this episode, they showed the very first hand player, then went to a commercial, and when they returned, they showed a very quick recap of what happened during hands 2 through 7, then showed hand 8 in its entirety. (That's when Chuck Gorson was eliminated.) The same pattern followed until it got down to the final two, and they showed two or three of their hands in a row in their entirety.

Anyway, it was an entertaining tournament, and the final showdown was absolutely terrific. I truly enjoyed seeing my personal favorite win the tourney too, and I can't wait to see him play in the Tournament of Champions and compete for the $500k in that episode later this year.