This new form is called '21st Century No-Bust Blackjack' and is legal to be spread in any licensed California cardroom.Ģ1st Century Blackjack plays very similarly to 21 in most respects, but differs from blackjack in a number of ways (it's these differences that keep the game legal in California). But card gambling itself is legal in California, so an enterprising company in Irvine invented a form of blackjack which was just different enough to not qualify as 'twenty-one' in legal terms. 21st Century Blackjack (abbreviated 21CB below) is a variant of blackjack that is legal to play in California cardrooms.Ĭalifornia law explicitly outlaws the playing of 'twenty-one', and courts have ruled that this is the game of blackjack, as is commonly played in Las Vegas and elsewhere.
