The Biggest Blackjack Tournament Ever: The Good, The Bad, and the Just Plain Weird By Kenneth Smith
Ken Smith is considered by his peers to be one of the best tournament blackjack players. He is the author of the new e-book. How to Win More Blackjack Tournaments: Tips, Tricks, and Strategies to Supercharge Your Game. Ken hosts the popular website www.BlackjackInfo.com as well as the online tournament community at www.BlackjackTournaments.com. He has appeared on TV in all four seasons of GSN's World Series of Blackjack, the Las Vegas Hilton Million Dollar Championship II finals, and in the Ultimate Blackjack Tour. You can subscribe to his free email newsletter at http://www.blackjackinfo.com/news/.
By the time you read this, there will only be a handful of days left to register and play in the final monthly qualifier in the largest prize pool blackjack tournament ever fielded. So, why haven't you heard about this before now? Well, frankly, this event popped up as a big surprise to the entire tournament community. Staged in a casino that I had never even heard of a few months ago, this event was predictably a little hard to believe when it was first announced. After all, the blackjack tournament community has seen quite a few million-dollar-plus events announced and then later cancelled, or dramatically scaled back. But this one is the real deal. So, just what is this super-event? Billing itself as the First Blackjack Reality Show, "The Split" is an interesting concept for a TV series created by Winstar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. This Native American casino, located an hour north of Dallas, Texas, is making an effort to get on the national casino map by holding events they call the Winstar World Championship Series. A website for the poker and blackjack events has launched at http://www.wwcs.tvI headed to Oklahoma in June to try out this event. Here's what I learned... ...enter your member login information below to read this article/newsletter... Paid Members-Only ArticleYou have clicked on a link to a Blackjack Insider web page or article for paid subscribers. You must have a paid membership to the Blackjack Insider newsletter to view this content. About 1/2 of the articles in each issue of the Blackjack Insider are for paid members only, while the rest are viewable by everyone. Your purchased membership will allow you to read all Blackjack Insider articles for 12 months. Enter your user name and password below (they were listed and e-mailed to you after you purchased your Blackjack Insider membership):
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