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History of Blackjack
Though the History of Blackjack is somewhat vague, it is widely believed that Blackjack as we know it today originated in France. It was in France the first recorded mentioning of Blackjack called in French "vingt-et-un" (20 + 1) was made in France during the seventeenth century. The English name Blackjack came about when you were rewarded for receiving an Ace of Spades and a Jack, which may be called a Club or Spade, thus hence the name Blackjack.
From France the early French colonists brought the game of vingt et un to Canada and the United States and started to become popular in North American casinos in the early twentieth century. Despite the popularity that the game of Blackjack had in Europe, the game did not take off immediately in the United States and in the United States the rules were changed to make the odds more favorable to the player. Probably the biggest rule change was the addition of a 10:1 bonus payout if a player were to draw a Jack of Spades with an Ace of Spades for his first two cards. In the United States the legalization of gambling in the state of Nevada during the 1930's and Vegas becoming synonymous with Blackjack, Blackjack then became the gambling town's most enduring image.
The History of Blackjack had some developments and in 1953 the first attempt to study Blackjack was made by Roger Baldwin and his associates which was a great turn in the History of Blackjack. They used statistics theory and calculating methods in order to reduce the house edge for Blackjack. It was later in 1956 when they published their findings in the American Statistical Association under the title "Optimum Strategy in Blackjack" which became the first Blackjack Strategy Guide.
The next big step that was taken to understand Blackjack via math and science was made by Professor Edward O Thorp in 1963. With the release of his book called "Beat the Dealer" which had a Blackjack card counting system, it made quite an impact on the players and with the History of Blackjack but it as well hit the land based casinos with terror. To reduce the damage from his book, land based casinos across the United States devised plans to reduce the damage by modifying the Blackjack rules. Thorp's Ten-Count was very difficult to learn by the average Blackjack player and as well was hard to understand and uneasily read by the public. In the end the general public was enraged upon the land based casinos new changes to the Blackjack rules. The threat of Thorp's book "Beat the Dealer" ended up really being no threat at all and losing money in doing so, they reinstated the rules of traditional Blackjack. It was during the 1960's through until the 1980,s that Blackjack was the rising star of the card games for land based casinos. Ken Uston is another that had an effect on the History of Blackjack with his publishing of "Million Dollar Blackjack", "Ken Uston on Blackjack" and his other book the "The Big Player". It was Ken Uston and colleagues of his that used computers that were inserted into their shoes and by using the computers they were able to make thousands of dollars every month by playing Blackjack at Nevada's casinos. Overall Blackjack has remained a popular card game whether to played at an online casino or a land based casino. The following online casinos offer some of the best variations of Blackjack to be found on the internet. Visit the Blackjack Ballroom Casino and choose from over 30 different versions of Blackjack. Visit the First Web Casino and choose from 39 fifferent versions of Blackjack. Visit the Virtual City Casino and choose from 20 different versions of Blackjack.
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