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Blackjack Gold is a full featured blackjack game loaded with options that let you simulate virtually any casino. Animations, a genuine blackjack dealer's voice, keyboard shortcuts, over 80 different card back images, king and queen faces include leaders from many different countries, and blackjack variations offer a realistic blackjack game for both novices and pros.

Play the popular blackjack variations of Spanish 21, Super Sevens, Over Under 13 and the blackjack wheel. Choose from preset casino conditions including Atlantic City, Mississippi Gulf Coast, various Las Vegas options, or easy, medium, advanced. Blackjack Gold offers several card counting systems and the ability to add your own.

Highly customizable. Configure the players, cards, betting options, and casino conditions. Set your own bankroll, table minimums and maximums, card shuffling options and penetration, and choose your own seat at the blackjack table. Up to 7 players can be set to human/computer with customizable blackjack strategies for the computer players.

You can set the dealer hit and peek options, along with the table rules for splitting, doubling and surrendering. Options include some of the harder to find game rules such as Double Down Rescue, Split Rescue, doubling on more than two cards, and surrendering at any time. Blackjack payouts are configurable, as well as allowing the dealer to win ties, and whether to allow 5-6-7 card Charlies.

Pros can configure blackjack strategies for any player, set the game to an all computer player game and let it play by itself to test your favorite strategies. Progressive betting is supported, hard and soft hand strategies, insurance, surrender, split, double, even money, win/loss limits, the last two cards played, and other factors let you set detailed strategies for your computer players. The top 100 scores are saved and can be sorted by hands played, cumulative wins/losses, and other categories.

Blackjack Gold is $19.95, and is available now from the Gypsy King Software website. Versions are available for Mac OS 8.6 and up, Mac OSX, and Windows. Blackjack Gold requires 15MB hard drive space, must be played in at least thousands of colors, and requires a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768.