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LAS VEGAS BLACKJACK REPORT

By Joe Pane

Joe Pane is a skilled advantage blackjack player and an experienced tournament player who has won over half a million dollars in blackjack tournaments. Besides competing in tournaments around the country and on the Internet, Joe writes the "House of Pane" column for "All In Blackjack" magazine and was recently hired by the Ultimate Blackjack Tour (UBT) as the Assistant Director of Tour Operations as well as the Team UBT Coordinator. His peers consider him to be one of the strongest blackjack tournament players on the circuit.

The casinos covered in this report include:

Rampart

Suncoast

Red Rock

This report covers the blackjack playing conditions in three casinos located in northwest Las Vegas. Before I begin, one caveat. In any report that is written about current blackjack condition in Las Vegas (or elsewhere) that covers blackjack rules, penetration, and the pit’s overall tolerance toward bet spreads, the conditions might change from shift to shift and even from day to day. With that being said, the observations that I made for this report were done on Monday, Sept. 24, during the swing shift of these three casinos.

The first casino that I visited was the Rampart casino, which also happens to have the best weekly blackjack tournament currently being offered in Las Vegas, and for that matter, anywhere else in the USA.

Their Monday night tournament uses the Ultimate Blackjack Tour (UBT) elimination format. The entry fee is $50; there is a maximum of 72 players (the tournament is open to all players) and get this, the tournament returns 100% of the entry fees to players in cash prizes.

Now you are probably wondering why I’m touting this tournament as being as the "BEST" around...

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