Welcome to the new BJTUSA.com and our first News post on the new website. This issue is to get acquainted with the new website and to revisit some carry over details from our earlier established goals and standards.
We’re happy to report that with the help of our community of committed members we’ve grown our subscriber base by 70% since this time last year. Thanks to all of you for supporting Open Blackjack Tournaments with your dedicated advocacy with players and casino properties and your dependable event participation!
We maintain our commitment to proactively furnish Free Open Blackjack Tournament Event Reminders and Updates to all who have expressed their interest in being a part of the Blackjack Tournament community. We maintain a commitment that subscriber’s names will not be shared with anyone & NO SPAM EVER! Anyone who wishes to stop notifications can send full name, City, State and subject: “Remove” to: info@BJTUSA.com for prompt removal.
The following is our original Mission Statement, which remains effective today:
Our mission is to provide to both Players and Casino properties involved in the Blackjack Tournament community a means to cooperatively assist in supporting, maintaining and growing existing tournament opportunities and development of additional events. We are committed to:
- Proactively provide players with reminders of tournament opportunities and other items of interest.
- Maintain effective communications between an established and organized players group and interested casino properties.
- Increase event opportunities by offering player preferred tournament rules, and other information to assist casino properties in their consideration of utilizing Blackjack Tournaments as a profitable and player loyalty building part of their business plan.
- Assist in accomplishing dependable event turnout by our growing roster of dedicated Blackjack Tournament players which can collectively offer casino properties more reliable participation therefore more successful tournament events. In particular we can help develop a rules set that is proven attractive to long time active Blackjack Tournament players and will therefore draw more players for optimum event participation.
Get acquainted with the new website
The new website was needed in order to accomplish a few things that the original site offering did not:
#1 Was the need for ease of use. The original site was a bit clunky and hard to move around in. Once inside this new site there are only 5 menu buttons to conveniently guide visitors to their desired information, including a way to easily check on available tournament event details and to subscribe to our notification service. The “More>” button is the only one with a sub-tab under it – News and BJT Store.
Menu Buttons:
Home button – This page is dedicated to offering an overview of what we’re all about to visitors, both old and new. It is a launch pad for the rest of the site contents with navigation buttons at the top of all pages.
Event Calendar – For month at a time review of all Blackjack Tournament events, this is the button to click. All information that is available to us on scheduled events is revealed when the event button is clicked.
Event Listing – For a complete date order listing of all known events, primarily in the central part of the US, from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, this is the button to click. All information that is available to us is revealed when the event button is clicked.
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News – These articles are for items of interest that are not directly related to a scheduled event, i.e.: Upcoming event with no scheduled date, prospective events in the works, progress reports on our tournament promotion and player recruiting efforts, etc.
BJT Store – This is now under construction. Check back often to see it grow. In an effort to offer rewards and incentives to member players we distributed jackets to all member winners of both Hard Rock and Paragon tournaments with embroidered BJTUSA logo and “Event Winner 2023” acknowledgement in gold lettering. Since we don’t and will never impose a cost for our player notification service and tournament promotion, we hope to offer some items at this store that will be of interest to visitors the revenue from which to support the cost of site maintenance, tournament promotion and future member player rewards and incentives.
Join BJTUSA – This is a quick and easy place for those not already a member to sign up for notifications. Please encourage anyone you know who is interested in Open Blackjack Tournaments to visit our website and while there to sign up for Free notifications of upcoming events and other items of significance.
Additionally our effort has the need to be more informative so prospective players and casino property personnel can know more about us and therefore understand our sincere intent and ability to deliver.
Probably the most important thing for us to do for those who would like to play Tournament Blackjack is to impress upon them that it is not true, as many believe, that they are ”not good enough to play tournaments” or “It’s too intimidating to play with all those experienced players”, etc. Bottom line, we have offered encouragement to many who tried tournament Blackjack and found it to be as exciting as they’d thought it might be. And, as we know, there is no intimidation factor – we all have many very good friends today that were at one time just strangers, but a part of our very welcoming crowd.
Casino properties also need to know that our player base will turn out for the tournaments and will become their loyal customers. That’s where sincere enthusiast player growth of our subscribers is so important. Although we respect everyone’s privacy so we never expose names, we need membership numbers to give the for profit casino properties assurance that we can deliver players to their property who will participate in the tournament but also increase play on the Casino floor while there, and build loyalty that evolves into play at times other than tournament weekends.