An affront to Gambing online and off-line
Let me begin by saying that I love playing blackjack. I play blackjack online; I play blackjack in internet casinos; hell, I play blackjack in just about any place that I can. It’s a great game and not just because there’s money riding on it. The skill required to play blackjack is immense, especially when you take card counting and shuffle tracking into consideration. It doesn’t incorporate the complexities of poker but it’s not the mindless idiocy of keno or slots. Keno has to be the stupidest game; slots isn’t far behind but something about keno repulses me. Maybe it’s because you’d have to be a moron to play because the chances of winning big are infinitesimal. Blackjack is a happy medium; it requires skill but not too much and it’s enjoyable and winnable.
There’s something about the blackjack trend that really grates my gears - celebrity blackjack. Are you kidding me? Does anyone care in the slightest about celebrities playing blackjack. Is there really some nimrod who gets a thrill watching unrecognizable celebs play blackjack?
Of all the stupid marketing ploys; some tool flipping through the channels is going to stumble upon some loser celebrities faux-playing blackjack and all of a sudden the dim bulb in his head is slowly going to sizzle to life and he’ll want to play blackjack. I doubt it. And even if this troglodyte does start playing blackjack, he’ll lose interest just as quickly. “Gee, blackjack looks cool…” and then the channel changes and now: “toasters are helpful.” The thought of blackjack has been flushed; his head functions much in the same way as a toilet. After any use, its empty again.
Don’t get me started on these so-called ‘celebs’ either. Who’s ever heard of any of them? There have been so many Baldwins on celebrity blackjack that the producers must be calling random people with the last name of Baldwin, asking them if they have a brother, and then if affirmative requesting their presence on celebrity blackjack as a ‘Baldwin brother’. The celebrities that I do recognize are so dull and their dialogue is such drivel that it makes me want to pull out my hair.
The worst part about the celebrity blackjack show is that it’s clearly not about blackjack. It’s about these celebs trying to inch forward their stillborn acting or singing careers. Let them die; clearly if you’re playing blackjack under the pathetic moniker of celebrity your career is already dead. Take the same advice your mother gave to you about the dead cat in the road; stop toying with it. Do everyone a favor and get a job in the service industry; be a waiter or a construction worker and then use the ‘real-life’ drama of the working class to develop that empathic element that your acting so sorely needed.
The show is an insult to the game of blackjack as well. It cheapens the hard work of the professional blackjack players who master the game and make a good living from it. And it makes the online casino play unbearable when you have these fair-weather blackjack types who have no idea what they’re doing and make an ass of themselves and ruin the flow and sanctity of blackjack.
So, for the good of the game of blackjack and self-respecting people everywhere, don’t watch this trash. Boycott celebrity blackjack; read a book about blackjack or about anything. Do something clever with your time instead of wasting it on this steaming heap of a TV show.
Many people who participate regularly in online casino and online poker are regular entrees in the national lottery and enjoy playing the free blackjack too.