While elimination blackjack is the hot tournament style right now, there is another way to play blackjack in a tournament setting. In this style, every player is in a race to accumulate more chips than the other players in the tournament.

These tournaments are played for a certain length of time, not a certain number of hands. No one is eliminated from these events, as long as they still have chips on the table and time to bet them.

This kind of tournament allows players to focus more on beating the house at the game of blackjack, and not so much on how to bet so they match up well against their opponents. There's no "final question on jeopardy" aspect to the game.

If you'd prefer to play this simpler style of blackjack tournament, they are available from time to time online. While places like Get21.com and Ultimate Bet are dealing the elimination games, you can find online casinos like English Harbour and Intercasino are hosting the accumulation style events.

Intercasino has been offering what they call "quick fire" events that give players one hour to do what they can with their starting stack. English Harbour hosts events that can last for days, so check into the casino that hosts games that are more to your style.

Besides finding them online, you can also join in accumulation blackjack tournaments in land-based casinos. And while each casino will have their own method of dealing blackjack tournaments, accumulation blackjack tournament are still popular enough to find their way into the Oklahoma State Blackjack Championship event line-up.

This page was last updated January 7th, 2007.