Blackjack

21 is the Magic Number

If you simply can’t resist a classic card game than your superior tastes can be satisfied with a virtual feast of blackjack games here at Monkey Casino. We´d recommend Vegas Strip blackjack straight off the bat, for example. That one´s from the top drawer!

Blackjack remains one of the world’s most popular table games, thanks to its simplicity.
Whether you’re a new player or an experienced hand at this classic card game, you´ll find a game just right for you, no matter what your level of experience is.
So for the blackjack newbies, what is this popular card game all about?

The Real Deal
To boil blackjack down to basics, the game is all about being dealt a hand of cards that you are trying to get as close as possible to the magical total of 21, and no more. That’s why this game is also known as 21.

The key thing to remember, no matter how many people are betting in your game, it’s you versus the dealer.

The dealer gives out two cards per player and two to the House. Then it is simply a matter of either “stand”, or “hit” (you request another card from the dealer to get you closer to that important number 21. But watch out, if you “hit” and gain a hand higher than 21 you will go “bust” and the house will have won that particular round.

Most blackjack is played with all 52 cards of the playing deck, and the suite isn’t a factor in the game. The numbered cards hold their face value, ie 2-10. The face cards- King, Queen and Jack- are all worth 10, while the Ace comes with two scores, it can be worth 1 or 11 depending on your hand and what gets you closer to that magical total without going bust.

The perfect blackjack hand is an ace and a card with a face value of 10.

The game itself takes usually takes place on a neat semi-circular betting table where at a land based casino you would have 7 players, although you can have more, especially when you move into the world of online blackjack.

Live Blackjack

Live Blackjack
In live blackjack, you can experience the heady atmosphere and thrill of playing streamed blackjack with games like Evolution Gaming’s Blackjack Lobby that push the boundaries of live gaming. There are a host of great titles like Blackjack G with smart camera angles, dealer interaction, and some of the taste of gambling at a land based casino. And these games have all the technical gizmos that make them practically perfect on a mobile device too.

You might want to give the NetEnt and Extreme Live Gaming (Novomatic) games a whirl too. They’re great on mobile.

This type way of gaming comes with a professional dealer and a real card table with all the high tech that delivers the action to your screen.

Virtual Blackjack
There is also a big choice of quality games that offer as close to a land based casino blackjack game as you could hope to gain delivered through an RNG (Random Number Generator) which exactly matches the odds you would get at ta land based casino.

These virtual games offer more speed with other features such as a powerful statistics suite and a game that looks as good as the physical casino game.

For virtual blackjack players there are games like BlackjackPro MonteCarlo Singlehand which are easy to play and have a great atmosphere to boot. Don’t be put off by the serious sounding title- it’s an easy one to pick up and one of the dealer’s cards is dealt face up to help you plan your strategy.

Those fine developers of casino games at NetEnt have dreamt up the Blackjack Professional Series of games that are a great set of virtual games with realistic sound effects ans some seriously slick graphics.

Blackjack Everywhere

Enough variants to put your head in a spin
Let´s look at some of the other choice that is available : Spanish 21 Blackjack Gold has eight decks of cards in play with the 10s removed.

This game also allows you to split your hand up to three times. Handy!

And Multi-hand Classic Blackjack Gold from Microgaming allows you to play up to five hands simultaneously with each and every deal. Now that takes some beating!

The long and short of it? Our online blackjack section has something for everyone whether you’re a pro or a novice and whether you want the action of a live game or the speed of a virtual game.

Live Lobby
Let´s take a close look at our range of live dealer blackjack games that you can get your teeth into.

As well as a tidy looking set of games from NetEnt that look great on a mobile, we have games from Extreme Live Gaming and a whole lobby within a lobby full of Evolution games.

Evolution is a studio that is famous for its live dealer games- if you like playing live, you need to give their games a go- they are slick!

If you cannot find a table to suit you here, you won’t find a table anywhere.

Choose from other 30 tables including VIP tables with higher limits, Grand VIP for the really serious players and Diamond VIP for the high rollers.

Or you can just bet 0.50 a hand if you like on the Blackjack Party tables.