Reason #4 why the Wizard likes Bovada:

One-Stop Shopping

Bovada offers the triple crown of gambling: casino, poker, and sports. Many other casinos have tacked on poker as an afterthought, and many poker rooms have tacked on a casino as an afterthought, and the lack of attention shows, sometimes painfully. And very few of these sites let you make sports wagers.

But Bovada doesn’t just offer all three, they do each one well, and everything’s integrated. It’s easy to play all three off one deposit, off just one account.

Another nice thing about Bovada is that you don’t need a separate account to play casino games with fake money. In fact you do not even need an account for that at all, you can just click over there and play. Finally, Bovada usernames are only six or seven characters long making them possible to remember. By contrast some competitors’ usernames are extremely long and cumbersome.

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Last Update: May 10, 2011

Rules and Strategy

See my Ties Win Blackjack section for info about the game and how to play it.

Blackjack in general

I have a complete section about blackjack itself, as well as questions I've answered about blackjack from my Ask the Wizard columns.

Known Bugs

When the dealer asks for insurance, you can tell if he has a blackjack if it says "blackjack" on top. I don't know how to fix that.

Credits

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