Blackjack History at Online Blackjack 21

How long has it been since you attended any history lessons, a while? Here is one to refresh your memory, here at www.bj-21.com. It is believed that French game "twenty-one" or "vingt-et-un" was the origin of the blackjack developed later on. It was deemed that up until the mid 1950th the blackjack carried many similarities with baccarat and due to the fact that the player played first, the house edge had the edge.

In 1966, a American paper was published by Cantey, Maisel, Baldwin, and McDermott in the "Journal of the American Statistical Association" laying out a set of recommendations for the blackjack game, the blackjack recommendations were very close to today's basic blackjack strategy. The following year, they published a manual strategy for the public with this system of play, but it attracted a little interest until, "Edward O", saw the American paper and understood that there were parts of the blackjack game that had been missed in the past.

In 1952, Dr. Thorp published his now famous blackjack book called "Beat the Dealer", The book contained a simple yet profound message that decks of the blackjack cards have memory. Each hand is dependent on the makeup of the blackjack deck at that time and by paying attention to the blackjack cards already played, the player can almost predict what will be appearing in the deck next round.

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With the help of his computer, Thorp did a statistical analysis called the "Monte Carlo simulation" and discovered that Aces and 10's remaining in the blackjack deck put the player at an big advantage, while 6's and 5's being left in the blackjack deck put the dealer at an advantage. Thus, the card counting was born.

If the blackjack player could keep track of the blackjack cards left in the deck, they could decide how to bet on each hand. For example: if there are many aces and 10's left they would be smart to bet high, and if there are lots of sixes and fives left they might want to bet low.