Online Gambling - Casino

Staff Writer
June 26, 2009

Cherry Red Casino is currently holding qualifier tourneys in its 7s Summer Series of blackjack.

On 1 October, the $7,777 Summer Series Final will be held to decide the best tournament blackjack player at Cherry Red Casino. Leading up to the event, however, will be a series of qualifying tourneys. Held in two levels, these will cut the competition down to the crème de la crème of online tournament blackjack.

The first level will be initial satellite tournaments on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Winners of these tournaments will move on to the appropriate weekly Sunday feeder tournament. The cost of these first level satellite tourneys is different for each day. Monday will be $7, Thursday will be $11, and Saturday tourneys will cost $22 for entry. Cherry Red Casino may even consider adding more satellites if these end up being too popular.

Winners of the first level satellites gain a free entry into the weekly finals feeder tournaments, but others may buy into them directly for $44. The top 3 players in these feeder tournaments receive free entries into the $7,777 Summer Series Final. The weekly feeder tourneys will have their own prize pool of $777 per tournament, with first place getting $326.34, second getting $194.25 and third getting $116.55. Fourth place will win $77.70, possibly the luckiest prize amount for the 7s tournament series, and fifth will win $62.16.

Once the 14 weeks of feeder tournaments have run, 42 players will be entered into the $7,777 Summer Series Final. Others will also be able to join in on this event, however, for a buy-in of $110. This tournament will decide the King or Queen of online tournament blackjack, with prizes to match. The overall winner will receive $2,022.02 of the $7,777 prize pool. This will be followed by the second place being awarded $1,477.63, and prizes paid down all the way to twelfth place.

To do well in this blackjack tournament series, it is necessary to understand the blackjack tournament format that Cherry Red Casino uses. This tournament series will feature multi tournaments rather than the more common single tournaments. These tournaments require players to defeat full tables of other players in order to advance to higher levels of the tournament. While playing, you get 20 seconds to make decisions, or else the software will make a minimum bet or possibly disqualify you if it is a late hand. The first player to act changes as each round of blackjack is played. Play is against the dealer cards, but winning depends on having a higher chip amount than the other players. Once all hands are played for a level, players with the lowest chip amounts will be eliminated and the remaining players will move to a new level. Full rules can be found at the Cherry Red Casino site.

If you want to enter the 7s Summer Series of blackjack, it would be a good idea to join Cherry Red Casino today to get some practice. New players can benefit from a 100% bonus on first deposits worth up to $777. There are also many great blackjack bonuses available, with 200% bonuses worth up to $1200 open to blackjack players at Cherry Red Casino. For the blackjack fanatic, Cherry Red Casino really is one of the best places online to play.