For the last few months blackjack players were engaged in an online tournament at Lucky18 Casino. The head to head competition, titled ‘mano a mano’, was played out over six levels and started with a field of 64 players. Over the last weekend the final four battled it out for the $5,000 prize pool, with ‘Mademan’ winning the first prize.

The semi finals and the final were marked with high drama because the dealer pulled out an unusually large number of blackjacks. In the first semi final ‘Black_jd’ beat John_doe’. The second semi final between ‘Mademan’ and ‘Kurestrio’ was more exciting. One dealer blackjack considerably depleted the chip stacks of both players. ‘Mademan’ however managed to hold on to whatever he had left. ‘Kurestrio’ lost his chips much before the final hand and the contest finished early. Sensing the dealer’s aggressive mood both finalists began to play in a conservative manner, which was good because the dealer started with a blackjack. When the final deal was over ‘Mademan’ had the larger chip count and was declared the winner. The $5,000 prize pool was distributed as follows. ‘Kurestrio’ and ‘John_doe’ each received $500 for being the losing semi finalists. ‘Black_jd’, the losing finalist, won $1,500. The winner, ‘Mademan’, got the lion’s share of $2,500 and the bragging rights, till the next competition at least.

The blackjack tournaments at Lucky18 Casino are extremely popular. There are several tournaments running daily. The schedule of the tournaments is available at the Lucky18 web site. The next multi level tournament is the Lucky 32’s. This will have a prize pool of $1,500. The finals for this online tournament have been scheduled for the 26th of May. The feeder tournaments will begin on the 28th of April. Though Lucky18 Casino is powered by Real Time Gaming (RTG) the online blackjack tournaments are played on the 21GNET platform. 21 GNET is the largest global network and carrier of online blackjack tournaments that offers its products to almost 30 brands around the world. These include brands of the Rushmore and Club World group of online casinos. The products offered include Single Table Tournaments, Multi Table Tournaments, Private Tournaments and Head to Head community games. 21 GNET assures a secure and fair gaming environment. The 21 GNET platform integrates easily with that of the software provider to the online casino.

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