Sette e Mezzo

[Unclefester]

Available now at Playtech is the card game Sette e Mezzo (or "Seven and a Half")

[Unclefester]

If your preferred game of choice is Blackjack, but you fancy some lockdown variety you might want to give the Italian card game a try.


As the loading screen explains the game is similar to Blackjack....albeit with several differences (cue LD & another nice explanatory blog )

[Unclefester]

First impressions ..... nice enough looking game,

[Unclefester]

Dealer Elena pictured is one of Playtech's longest surviving original dealers who switched en masse 'overnight' to speaking Italian ..... so you shouldn't be surprised to discover the table language is Italian.


But what better opportunity than lockdown to begin learning a new language in the process of playing the game right

[LD]

(cue LD & another nice explanatory blog )

Thanks for the heads up Fester. I'm on it!

Nice to have a new traditional card game, rather than another game show.

[Unclefester]

Nice to have a new traditional card game, rather than another game show.

My thoughts exactly when I played the game,

....the different deck of cards makes a change also.

[LD]

Where can I play it Fester?

Tried all the usual suspects...365, Paddies, Betfair etc and couldn't find it.

[Unclefester]

Thought perhaps it was wrong time of day, but I’ve just checked... it’s live now via William Hill (blackjack tables)

[Unclefester]

couple more caps to tempt you LD ......while you play another game (ie. hunt the table )

[Unclefester]

secondly:

> The cards used in the game are Neapolitan (widely used across southern and central Italy) comprising of 40 cards in a deck.

There are 4 suits;

bastoni = clubs




spade = swords




denari = money (/coins)




coppe = cups




10 cards in each suit = Ace, 2 to 7, Jack, Cavalier, & King

Neapolitan cards aren't numbered, so you need to count how many of that particular suit are on the cards (2-7)