BLACKJACK TOURNAMENTS

Online Blackjack Tournaments can best be described as the next "Real Deal" and the next big wave in online business opportunities. With the online poker craze reaching a plateau, Blackjack tournaments are now on the scene and gaining popularity. With AOL & GSN joining forces, as well as UBT & CBS collaborating efforts, to bring the excitement of blackjack tournaments into mainstream television, now is the time to get into the game by owning your own online blackjack tournament site.

21GNET is distinguished by solely focusing on real-time, online blackjack tournaments in both, Single-Table "Sit & Go" or Multi-Table play formats.

Single Table Tournaments

Our Single-Table Tournaments are offered in a variety of options. You, the licensee, partner or affiliate, will determine the type of game you would like to offer your clientele prior to start playing the tournament. Options would include the number of hands/rounds to be played, the number of decks to be used, and the amount of buy-in. After all players have registered, the game will begin. Upon completion of the rounds, the player with the greatest amount of chips is a declared winner and will collect the winnings based on the game criteria, and the game is over.

Multi-Table Tournaments

21GNET is the Network Manager for this online gaming platform that is exclusively designed for online blackjack tournament competition. Our Multi-Table Tournaments offer our players the excitement of competing against other players from other tables in an elimination style format. Players at multiple tables compete at their table. Tournament criteria are established prior to play. As play progresses, a designated number of players (winners) move on to the next round, etc. For example with 129-512 players there would be a starting round, a quarter-final round, a semi-final round and the finals. Once the game starts the rounds will start immediately after all of the tables in the preceding round are complete. You, the licensee, partner or affiliate, will determine how much time the tournament will be open prior to the actual starting time of the event. If the event does not start on time, players may withdraw and their accounts will be reimbursed. All prize money will be paid out with the majority of the money being paid to the finalists however individual table winners of each round will receive a prize, based on the payout structure imposed by the Tournament Sponsor.

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SECURITY

Whether your organization is new to the game or highly experienced in server management, we will put together the optimum combination of systems, sub-systems, and key administrative support to get you going and keep you going.

We believe that all organizations doing business on the Internet should have attentive service and support from trained professionals, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Our Mission is to insure our Licensees, partners, and affiliates with the delivery of a safe and secure gaming platform which integrates latest SSL 128-bit encryption technology that can provide measurable results on the performance and success of their business.

We use popular, well tested and established technologies. Our server is written in Java's latest edition and can handle ten of thousands simultaneously users. It is designed in such a manner that various services could be placed on separate machines living in a load balance environment. All our services and software components can be deployed either under Linux or Windows operating systems.

Our 21GNET network is connected to multiple upstream providers, which ensures Internet connectivity is always available to customers.

This state of the art, fault-tolerant software utilizes hot standby router protocol (HSRP) and the greater route diversity enhances Internet performance. In the event that a router or router port fails, the hot standby router will take over within 40 seconds. The Internet bandwidth available to customers is always maintained at 10 times our average sustained usage.

Firewall
A firewall is simply a network device that will limit access to an IP address by specific ports. 21GNET has firewall services available upon request. We custom build our own systems, which we can configure as required.

VPN
A VPN, i.e., virtual private network, is a secure way to connect remote locations. Commonly, 21GNET will host a database server, on its fully redundant connections, which is shared by several branch offices around the world, or across the country. Our customers can access their reports online through a user friendly web-based interface secured through 120 bit encryption.

Load-Balancing
21GNET has load-balancing services available to customers who need sites to be available 24/7, with varying levels of simultaneous connections. Load-balancing is simply a system, which will ensure that more than one server shares incoming requests. This facility optimizes response times, and prevents a single machine from becoming overloaded with requests.

Network Backup Server
21GNET has servers dedicated to storing backup data for customers on its fully redundant network. Backups are scheduled to take place on a daily basis or as often as required.

IP Accounting
Our custom IP accounting software allows us to provide a breakdown by IP of your traffic usage. Full web traffic reports can be made available to our customers upon request.

Financial Transactions
The 21GNET payment processing center uses high levels of data encryption. Our Payment Processing Center uses 128-bit encryption, provided by Thawte Security, to ensure the security and privacy of your data. We keep all of your information confidential and will never share or sell your data to third parties, except in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Our state-of-the art player identification and controlled access login ensures maximum account safety.

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RNG/SHUFFLING

The most important part of an on-line card room is a specially designed program called the "random number generator". This is the program that generates a sequence of numbers, which correspond to various card types, dice throws, etc. A good random number generator is one that generates numbers that are:

• Evenly distributed and not correlated
• Unpredictable

If a random number generator is evenly distributed and not correlated, each number will be hit approximately the same number of times after a large number of runs. If a random number generator is unpredictable, you will not be able to predict the next number in a series no matter how many previously generated numbers you have studied.  

Both the practice and real money online versions of our Gaming Platform use a random number generator to create the cards in the various games and each game undergoes extensive testing.

First, designers imitate all possible situations and determine whether the rules are obeyed, payouts are properly paid, etc. Then the random number generator is added and tests are run with automated agents.

The optimal strategy is implemented for games where strategy is involved like in blackjack.

Depending on the game, between 1 and 10 million bets are run. If the frequency of winning combinations and general payouts are within expectations, the game is passed to a Quality Assurance team of engineers who play that game to insure its flawless play. All games are tested on the real gaming server. Only when a game passes these tests will it be available to play. 

A player may use both our online Flash based instant play application or our download version. Both methods are designed to be small in size and will fit even modem speed (dialup) connections and always maintain the higher standards in security.

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