Lorcan Palaca 
Blask tracks 807 live casino titles worldwide, and no blackjack game reaches the ten most distributed. Blackjack leads player share of interest in Spain and the Netherlands, and a roulette title tops Spain’s lobby. Blackjack runs near a 0.5% house edge under good rules, against 1.06% on baccarat’s Banker bet. A 6:5 payout on a … Read more
The technology winding down a working online casino started as a single AI blackjack dealer, and its founder thinks it will do to dealers what robotaxis are doing to drivers. Sentient Studios has an unusual calling card: it just talked a working online casino into shutting itself down. On July 20, BetHog, the crypto casino … Read more
LAS VEGAS – Game studio Yggdrasil made its US casino debut on July 21, going live with Caesars Entertainment’s online casinos in New Jersey and Michigan and ending years of the supplier watching the regulated American market from the sidelines. A Supplier Arrives, One Slot At A Time The rollout put Yggdrasil content on three … Read more
Michigan came within $1.9 million of Pennsylvania on one set of numbers and passed it on another, while New Jersey’s online win topped its Atlantic City floor for the first time. DETROIT – Michigan’s online casinos came within $1.9 million of passing Pennsylvania as the largest online casino market in the country in June, according … Read more
Written comment on Maine’s 15 proposed internet gaming chapters closes at 11:59 p.m. July 27, after a July 15 hearing. No chapter sets a minimum return to players, while state law requires casino slot machines to average 89% payback. A 6:5 blackjack game still returns 98.27% to a basic-strategy player, clearing an 89% floor with … Read more
Many of the streamed tables driving record online-casino revenue run 6:5 rules that can more than quadruple the blackjack house edge.
Online play opened July 13 for anyone 18 and up, but whether a natural pays 3-to-2 or 6-to-5 more than quadruples the house edge.
This is general information, not tax advice, and anyone with meaningful play should talk to a tax professional. If you play online blackjack for real money, a change in the federal tax code that took effect this year is worth a minute of your attention. Taxes on blackjack winnings were never zero, but a provision … Read more
Sweepstakes Casino Bans Are Redrawing the Map for Online Blackjack Players For the past few years, players across most of the country could open a sweepstakes casino app and play blackjack for a shot at real prizes, even in states with no legal online casino. That workaround is disappearing fast. A wave of sweepstakes casino … Read more