Although being successful in a blackjack tournament requires skill and “card sense”, these have nothing to do with playing the game at a high level. The importance is focused in your chips management and sizing your bets properly, as it is a competitive game. This shows a similarity with poker tournaments.

Poker tournaments are already televised due to their growing popularity, while Blackjack takes place in a smaller scale. But, considering the parallelism between the two card games, it is highly probable that, not in a faraway future, Blackjack tournaments end up on TV too.

GSN networks agrees on this, and has already started showing blackjack games. In fact, they consider themselves as the “home of blackjack”, as stated Kevin Belinkoff, vice president of programming for GSN. Producers expect to foster qualifying tournaments in forthcoming seasons, similar to "satellite poker tournaments”, smaller, and less expensive events prior to moving on to larger, more lucrative tournaments.

There’s a $1 million dollars prize pool, of which the winner gets half, for the third season of the World Series of Blackjack. Forty players will take part, and the event will be televised in 13 episodes. This time, most players qualified to compete and some experts were invited to play, as has happened the two previous seasons. "We're really building televised blackjack from the ground up" Belinkoff adds.