World Series of Blackjack

World Series of Blackjack

World Series of Blackjack 
The World Series of Blackjack is a blackjack tournament that was created and broadcast by the cable network GSN. This tournament is an event that is closed to the public. This means that in order to attend it, you either have to receive an invitation, or you can win a seat by taking advantage of the satellite tournaments that are offering seats to the World Series of Blackjack. All the rounds of the WSOB are going to be televised on the GSN network and each round can be watch as a 1 hour episode. During the first two seasons of this blackjack tournament the commentary was provided by Matt Vasgersain and Max Rubin.


The World Series of Blackjack was created back in 2004 and at the 2006 season (which was the third one), the players were already competing for an incredible prize pool of $1 million dollars. The casino that sponsored this event was in the gambling capital of the world Las Vegas and everything took place at the Las Vegas Hilton. So far each tournament of the World Series of Blackjack was hosted at different casinos every season.


The World Series of Blackjack is made out of 8 preliminary events that are going to take place in 1 hour, after that there will be another 2 semi-final events, 2 wild card events and the most interesting and exciting event: the final match. So far the events took between 25 and 40 players to compete against each other. Some of the participants are known to be some of the world’s most famous blackjack players in the world. This means that you can encounter at the World Series of Blackjack players like Ken Smith, Ken Einiger or Hollywood Dave Stann.


The 4th season started on June 4, 2007 and there were 40 players attending it. The prize pool of the 4th World Series of Poker was $1 million dollars and this season had tons of Blackjack stars, including the Celebrity Blackjack champion Caroline Rhea, baseball star Orel Hershiser and magician Penn Jillette.


The rules of the World Series of poker (as they were presented at the 4th season) are pretty simple. Each and every player that is attending this event will start with $100K chips stack and the initial minimum bet that he can make is $1K and the maximum is $50K.


The game is played with 6 decks of cards and each player is going to get a cool “Burger King Power Chip” that will allow him to switch one card with the next card. This type of power chip was added in the season 3.


The blackjack players that are going to be part of this tournament will have the possibility to split, double-down and insure for less than the bet that they make. And they can also double-down on anything.


The players will have the possibility to surrender the hand and this means that they can give up half of the bet the moment they concede the hand.


The moment a player is running out of chips and he cannot make the minimum bet is going to be automatically eliminated.


The World Series of Blackjack is going to reach the end after 25 played hands and the player with the most chips is going to win.

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