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BLACKJACK (AND MORE) IN COSTA RICA
By Joe Pane
Joe Pane is a skilled advantage blackjack player, and an experienced tournament player that has won over a million dollars in blackjack tournaments. Joe is the #1 ranked tournament player in the country, and was named 2007 Player of the Year by Las Vegas Advisor publisher Anthony Curtis. In Joe's last 11 tournaments in 2007/2008, he made the final tables eight times and won two of them for an impressive 73% final table appearance rate, with just over $225,000 won in the past 12 months. Joe is also the Assistant Director of Tour Operations for the Ultimate Blackjack Tour (UBT), as well as the Team UBT Coordinator. He is co-host of the radio show, "Queens vs. Kings – It’s All About Position" on
www.holdemradio.com. His peers consider him to be one of the strongest blackjack tournament players on the circuit.Once you’ve played blackjack in Las Vegas for a living, or for just plain entertainment, there aren’t too many other casino locales that can wet your appetite for fun and additional entertainment away from the tables. But my recent trip to Costa Rica proved that there is a place that has both, plus some additional exhilarating entertainment available to all Costa Rica visitors (not to mention some perfectly legal entertainment, which in Las Vegas, could have the vice squad knocking at your hotel door),
I was recently invited on a junket to Costa Rica by Max Rubin, who is the master of ceremonies for the famous Blackjack Ball. The latter is held every year at a secret location in Las Vegas, and it’s where the top blackjack players and authors gather to match their blackjack and math skills against each other. Max is also a well known TV personality who can be seen in just about every Las Vegas special that airs on TV. (Editor’s Note: For info on the last Blackjack Ball, go to issue #97, BJI).
The invitation was for the Horseshoe Casino, which is located in San Jose, Costa Rica. It was a weekend full of fun, and a first for me and a few others, who were also invited guests of Max and the Horseshoe Casino.
Max had invited me with one restriction: NO BLACKJACK for me, but you can come on down and have FUN, and we’ll pay for just about anything you do in and out of the casino (and that was no lie). I had a great time over my long weekend in Costa Rica, and Max made sure that was a given.
But there is always someone, or something, than can ruin a perfect situation and that was...
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