How do I get a membership?

A membership can be purchased online with a credit card at our secure store with your credit card for only $19.95 per year. You will receive a user name and password immediately by e-mail which you can use to read the members-only articles for 12 months, as well as the free articles.

Your user name and password may not be working for several reason:

I've forgotten my username/password. Can I get it again?

Purchasing a membership automatically subscribes you to our monthly e-mail newsletter (if you have not already subscribed to the e-mail list). You should receive two e-mails each month: a 'Lite' version near the start of the month that hilights the upcoming issue and articles, and the monthly newsletter itself usually sent mid-month.

Our online store asks for your name and address as an added security measure when placing your credit card purchase. This personal information must match the information on the credit card you use when you comlete your online order.

Blackjack Insider is a professional monthly publication with top-notch articles by world-reknown gaming experts. In addition, we have regular reporters that monitor game conditions and tournament schedules throughout North America.

Once in a while, we get a free subscriber who thinks it's unfair that we charge for BJI memberships. They think they should get every article for free, and are shocked we ask for payment to read all the articles. Here is a sample e-mail we received from 'JC':

"Yep, everyone's out to make a buck. Not many "free" articles in the month's newsletter, except for the "paid" subscribers. It used to be a great email to get, now it just seems like another way to get shaken out of twenty bucks. Henry, I love your work though, and it is a great newsletter, but I'm not shelling out another twenty."

Thankfully, we get many more positive e-mails from subscribers than the occasional rant, like JC's above. Here's our response, which we can only hope settles the matter:

"Joe,
I'm sorry you feel that way about the Blackjack Insider Newsletter. I've added more top notch authors and more content and these guys want to be paid for their efforts (do you not think this is fair?). If you think it's easy going to a bunch of casinos, writing down all the playing conditions and then going home and writing a detailed report, trust me it's not. Or getting a casino insider (The Suit) to spill his guts at the risk of getting blackballed all over town (that took me months to find the right person). I don't think asking our subscribers to pay $1.66 for each monthly issue is a lot of money considering that one tip or piece of advice could save or make that subscriber a lot more money. Plus we've discounted a whole bunch of products that would more than cover the $1.66 per month cost. I wish I could give away the Blackjack Insider Newsletter for free but the economics don't allow me (beside paying my authors I've got to pay my web master for the production and distribution of the newsletter and maintain the mailing list). I do it because I enjoy education folks on blackjack and I want to use the subscription fees to pay my authors for their time and effort. I've tried to make that clear when we went to a partly paid and paid free newsletter. So again I'm sorry you feel the way you do but I just wanted to be sure you understand my position."

Do I still have to see all those ads at the web site if I'm a paid member?

Good point, and now the top and bottom ads bars are removed from all web site pages if you are a paid subscriber! No more scrolling down half a screen to get to the beef of our great articles. As long as you have cookies enabled in your browser and have entered and chosen to save your BJI login id/pwd, then the top and bottom banner bars displayed on every page of our web site will disappear! Another reason to buy a membership.