Classic online blackjack at Kerching Casino
Kerching offers a comprehensive collection of blackjack games. Visitors to the UK online casino can enjoy a number of different titles, ranging in style from traditional versions of blackjack to modern, bonus-orientated varieties.
This complete online blackjack selection ensures that any Kerching Casino member can find a game to suit their tastes.
Online casino blackjack classics
Kerching Casino has an impressive range of classic blackjack games, giving casino players a genuine gameplay experience. Features in these traditional blackjack titles include:
- Classic gameplay – These titles have standard casino blackjack rules. This ensures online casino members can enjoy a back-to-basics blackjack game in the comfort of their own home.
- Authentic graphics – Online blackjack games such as Table Blackjack have realistic graphical features. Online casino players will notice the authentic way cards are dealt across the table as well as picking up on neat details like table reflections and felt shadowing.
- Realistic audio – Each classic online blackjack game has authentic sound effects, including commentary from the casino dealer and authentic ambient noise, further adding to the gameplay experience.
Online blackjack games with bonuses
There are a number of online blackjack games which have bonus features. Titles such as Blackjack with Hot Streak Bonus allow casino members to place additional wagers and win thrilling cash payouts.
Players will not find this type of blackjack in their local land-based casino, where very straight, traditional renditions of the game prevail. Online casino titles such as Vegas Blackjack with 20+ Bonus offer exclusive internet-only bonus features, giving gamers the chance to rack up huge cash wins via new and innovative gameplay routes. This is just one of the reasons why the popularity of online blackjack games has surged in recent years.
Online casino blackjack with a difference
Players can find a number of unique online blackjack games at Kerching Casino, with titles such as Top Hat 21 and 21 + 3 Blackjack offering a distinct different gaming experience. Online blackjack players have the chance to play in a darkened theatre in Top Hat 21, as a ghostly dealer draws cards from a floating top hat.
Meanwhile, 21 + 3 Blackjack combines features of blackjack and poker to create a unique online casino game, whereby members have the opportunity to win massive cash prizes if they obtain a poker hand with the initial card draw. This game is one of the most popular titles at Kerching Casino.
Blackjack history
All of the online casino blackjack titles at Kerching, whether straight-laced or boundary-pushing, are based on the centuries-old classic which historians believe has been played in some form or other since the 17th century.
One of the first literary references to blackjack was in a short story by Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. The novella, entitled Rinconete y Cortadillo and published as part of Cervantes' Novelas Ejemplares collection in around 1613, told of two characters playing a game called Veintiuna ('twenty-one') where the aim was to draw cards whose value came as close as possible to 21 points without exceeding it.
French colonists took their version of the game to America, where it remained under the moniker 21 until the 1930s. At that time, casino owners in Nevada (where gambling had just been legalised) were eager to attract players to the game and started to introduce bonuses to entice people to play.
One of the extra prizes they introduced was a 10 to 1 payout on any hand containing an Ace of Spades and either of the black jacks in the deck. Thus, 'Blackjack' was born. Although the bonus quickly died out, the name stuck.
Today online casino blackjack is one of the most popular games on the internet and is played in many countries around the world, including the UK, at sites such as Kerching. Quite a journey for a pastime first written about in a dusty Spanish town 400 years ago.
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Casino blackjack on your mobile
One of the most exciting gaming innovations of recent years is the development of casino games for mobile devices. Technology has come along in leaps and bounds, so much so that you can now download a mobile casino game from Kerching and play for cash – or in a tournament against your fellow members – wherever you are.
Spinning the reels of your favourite slots title or picking up some handy online casino blackjack wins would certainly brighten up your train journey, lunch break or quiet evening in. Some of the top titles available in miniature on a mobile handset are:
- Monty's Millions
- Cleopatra mobile slots
- Rainbow Riches – Pots of Gold
- Wipeout
- Cluedo
- Table Games
If online casino blackjack is your game of choice, that last title may be of particular interest to you. Table Games is a mobile download containing poker, roulette, and a special adaptation of blackjack for mobile. 20+ Blackjack boasts crisp graphics, thrilling gameplay, and the option to play for Kerching's famous cash prizes.
The aforementioned tournament mode is another big hit with our members. For an entry fee as low as £1, you can play the game of your choice and attempt to get on the leader board. At the end of a session, the highest scoring player will walk away with a fabulous prize, ranging from TVs and games consoles to sought-after tickets to the hottest events in town!
Blackjack hints and tips
If you hanker after those big money wins, Kerching can provide you with tips that will help as you play blackjack online. All of the blackjack games within the Kerching catalogue have a similar format but with added bonuses and features – this means that our handy hints apply to the array of titles we host.
- If you find that your card total is below eleven, you cannot go bust. We recommend that you ask for another card if you are below this score.
- One of the greatest tips that we offer to our Kerching members is to stand when you achieve a total of seventeen or greater. It is widely suggested that there is a high chance of going bust if you ask for another card after this point.
- There are diverse opinions on whether you should get another card when you have a total between twelve and sixteen. If the online casino dealer has a draw between two and six, it is best for you to stand. However if the House has a score between seven and an ace, try your luck and obtain another card.
- The best advice we can offer is that you play blackjack in a way that you enjoy. Whether you prefer to be on the safe side or live that little bit more dangerously, playing in your preferred style will allow you to thoroughly enjoy your game and may even result in a cash payout.