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Archive for June, 2011

Winds o’ change

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Ah yeah, as the good ol’ spring winds pass into the ether, summer blows into town with it’s suitcase and a newspaper under its arm. He’s here to stay, we hope, but does the weather bring the blackjack player luck?

Typical blackjack is played indoors. Four suits, four walls. Nowadays, things have changed just a lil, and you can play anywhere you want thanks to online blackjack. Seems all you need to do anything these days is a laptop computer and an idea. Lucky for me, my ideas involved getting a laptop computer just as the craze for blackjack games on the internet hit. Now that’s what I call a break…

Sometimes, yeah, I like to sit outside and shoot a few cards while sipping a cool rum and diet coke. I love the heat on my back as I flip the cards. Do I win? Well, so long as Mr. Sun keeps his hat on, I can’t lose!

I know other peeps who don’t like playing outside so much. Smoky Joe won’t play anywhere other than bed, and Dan Ham from Chippenham likes his legs in front of his antique fireplace when he asks lady luck for a favour. Just the way it goes, brother. Just the way it goes…

So this summer, here’s wishing all the online blackjack players a little bit of luck. But not just with the cards. Life too. Sometimes life can be a cold time, whatever the weather, and I’d like to raise a glass to all those affected by whatever’s going on in their lives. Hey, everyone has their time in the sun. The same goes for blackjack when the cards are shining and when they’re wet and stormy. I just got one little bitty word of advice: always wear lotion in the sun.

Success can drive a good man bad. I know that much…

Summer in the city?

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Well, things are looking mighty rosy for this old-timer. For once lady luck was smiling on me, and a hot streak saw me raking in a tidy sum. As you’d imagine, this means a certain other lady is smiling on me too – but only ’cause she’s expecting I’ll spoil her. See, she’s got her heart set on the annual Big Hoedown on the North Wales coast. The bright lights of Llandudno.

Meanwhile, yours truly would rather use that little windfall for a summer in the city. Any city. Hey, maybe with a bit more of this luck I could whisk us away across the pond to one of the Big Three: Atlantic City, Reno, or even Las Vegas. In the autumn of our lives, we could really do with some Stateside sunshine, while those showgirls are sure to do wonders for my health!

So you’ll understand if I’m a little reluctant to jump in the old faithful RV and gun it down the A55 to a land where seagulls snatch the chips from your unwitting hands. Not to mention gambling was illegal there until the mid seventies – I remember the shock when I went on a stag weekend in my youth – so you can hardly expect many high rolling blackjack games to come my way. Just the miles and miles of seafront arcades, the 2p machines, the plastic horse race, the robot fortune tellers…

But hey, as the Man in Black said, sometimes you just gotta walk the line.