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The Blackjack Hall of Fame is known for the diversity of its membership. There are the mathematicians who figured out the theory of blackjack strategy, the real-world gamblers who won millions of dollars at the casino blackjack tables, and the writers and TV personalities who spread the blackjack word to the public. But for all this diversity, there is one glaring omission. There are no women in the Blackjack Hall of Fame.
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Don't be fooled by their absence from the Hall of Fame. Women do know how to play black jack. From the early days of the game through the present day, there have been some truly great female blackjack players. Undoubtedly, the day will come when one of them will be inducted into the Hall. In the meantime, here is a brief look at a few of the great ones.
Eleanore Dumont was the first known professional black jack player — male or female — in history. Born and bred in France, and always maintaining her refined European manners, she arrived in the gold-mining town of Nevada City, California, in 1854 and opened a blackjack casino called "Vingt-Et-Un". House rules were no bad language and no brawls, and Madame Dumont's charm won over even the roughest miners to play it her way.
| Madame Dumont always dealt the cards at the Vingt-Et-Un, and she usually won. But win or lose, she was always gracious and always poured free champagne for all the blackjack players. The miners of Nevada City said they would rather lose to Madame Dumont than win at blackjack against anybody else. |
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When the gold ran out in Nevada City, Madame Dumont moved her black jack casino to places like Virginia City, California; Fort Benton, Montana; Salmon, Idaho; and finally to Brodie, California, where she died in 1879. She was nominated, but not elected, to the Blackjack Hall of Fame in 2006.
Cathy "Cat" Hulbert, originally from New York, always loved to gamble. She put herself through college playing cards and then, in 1976, at the age of 24, she moved to Las Vegas with the intention of becoming a professional poker player. But first she got a job as a casino blackjack dealer, and her life took a different turn.
While dealing blackjack one evening, Cat noticed a man named Peter who seemed to always win at blackjack when his bets were high and to lose when his bets were low. She asked him what was going on, and he taught her the art of black jack card counting. Cat was a fast learner, and when her lessons were completed, she joined Peter's card-counting team, known as "The Czechs," which travelled around Europe playing — and winning — in all the European blackjack casinos. Cat later recalled, "I came to Vegas to be a poker player, and I stumbled on to something I didn't even know existed".
Afterwards, Cat returned to the U.S. and became a key member of Ken Uston's legendary blackjack team. The team won too much money for the liking of the casino bosses, and over the course of her blackjack card-counting career, Cat was banned from more than 150 casinos and was arrested more than 50 times.
Eventually, Cat left the game of blackjack and returned to her first love: poker. Besides being an active player in high-stakes poker tournaments, she wrote a book called "Outplaying the Boys: Poker Tips for Competitive Women" and runs a website called Poker4Girls.com. She was the only woman named to Card Player magazine's list of the top seven-card stud poker players in the world, she was featured in Richard Munchkin's book "Gambling Wizards," and the Game Show Network has called her "the best female gambler on earth".
The 2007 World Series of Blackjack started with a field of 40 of the world's best blackjack players. After all the preliminary tournaments, semi-final tournaments, and the final tournament, one person remained to claim the Championship trophy and the $500,000 first prize. That person was Alice Walker of Houston, Texas.
Just a year earlier, Alice Walker had won the 2006 National 3-Card Poker Championship. This amazing back-to-back Double Crown has never been duplicated and it established Alice as one of the top all-around card players in the world.
By the way, this Alice Walker did not write the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple." "The Color Purple" was written by the other Alice Walker — a supremely talented writer but, as far as we know, not much of a card player.
As you can see, blackjack is far from being an all-male preserve. Women like Eleanore Dumont, Cathy Hulbert, and Alice Walker, as well as others such as Erica Schoenberg and Joanna Wlodawer, are capable of playing casino blackjack at the highest competitive levels.
The same is true of online blackjack as well. Women are equally as adept as men at learning the blackjack rules and strategies and playing and winning blackjack online. So all you ladies — and you gentlemen too — are invited to join Wild Jack Casino, download the blackjack software, claim your Welcome Bonus, and have fun playing blackjack online at the top online blackjack casino in the world.
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