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"Football is to baseball as blackjack is to bridge. One is the quick jolt. The other the deliberate, slow-paced game of skill..."
-Vin Scully

September 7, 2006 - EasyBourse
Party Poker blackjack players gamble $38 million per day on blackjack, and black jack makes up 80% of their casino business.

September 7, 2006 - Hemscott
Excapsa software launched tournament style blackjack today. Excapsa Software powers the Ultimate Bet poker site.

August 29, 2006 - Blackjackinfo
Keith Taft, a gadgeteer and inventor of multiple ways to get an edge at blackjack, dies. RIP Mr. Taft.

August 28, 2006 - World Screen News
The Ultimate Blackjack Tour will debut on CBS on September 16. This is a new Elimination Blackjack style tournament.

August 18, 2006 - Northwest Arkansas Morning News
Video poker and video blackjack may be coming to the racetracks in Arkansas.

August 12, 2006 - Casinomeister
More about the autoplay basic strategy errors with Microgaming. (The problem seems to have been corrected as of July 11, 2006.)

August 10, 2006 - Media Week
The Ultimate Blackjack Tour sues GSN and the World Series of Blackjack.

August 2, 2006 - Two plus Two
Blackjack basic strategy errors with the autoplay feature on the new Microgaming blackjack gold product.

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