Blackjack: A WikiFocus Book
Blackjack: A WikiFocus Book details the History,Rules of play at casinos,Player decisions,Insurance,Rule variations and their consequences for the house edge,Blackjack strategy,and Composition-dependent strategyBlackjack’s precursor was “twenty-one”, a game of unknown origin. The first written reference is found in a book bythe Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote. Cervantes was a gambler, andthe main characters of his tale Rinconete y Cortadillo, from Novelas Ejemplares, are a couple of cheaters working inSeville. They are proficient at cheating at ventiuna (Spanish for twenty-one), and state that the object of the game is to reach 21 points without busting and that the ace values 1 or 11. The game is played with the Spanish baraja deck,which lacks eights, nines and tens. This short story was written between 1601 and 1602, implying that ventiuna wasplayed in Castilia since the beginning of the 17th Century or earlier. Later references to this game are found inFrance and Spain.When twenty-one was introduced in the United States, gambling houses offered bonus payouts to stimulate players’interest. One such bonus was a ten to one payout if the player’s hand consisted of the ace of spades and a black jack(either the jack of clubs or the jack of spades). This hand was called a “blackjack” and the name stuck to the game,even though the ten to one bonus was soon withdrawn. In the modern game, a “blackjack” refers to any hand of anace plus a ten or face card, regardless of suits or colours.WikiFocus Books are collaborative books designed for education on specific subject matter. Our motto is “Collaborative Books for Creative Minds” and it is our mission to provide focused content for both educational and entertainment purposes. We present targeted information on specific subjects which are compiled from online collaborative resources from across the globe. Some text and images contained in this book have
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