Blackjack Game

Blackjack game as well as its internet equivalent online blackjack is thought to originate from other French games such as "chemin de fer" and "French Ferme". Blackjack game comes from a family of games that includes Baccarat, Seven-And-A-Half and a game known to Americans as 21. These all games are credited to be the origin of today's Blackjack. Standardized blackjack game decks of cards first appeared in 1440 when Johann Guttenberg printed the 50-card deck. Within a few years his cards and the blackjack games played with them were hugely popular among the rich and the royal.

Many of those blackjack games are based on reaching a certain card-count total. In Baccarat, which appeared in Italy in the 1490's, the total was of course 9. Another Italian contender to Blackjack's ancestry was Seven-and-a-half, which was played with only Eights, Nines, Tens and face cards, which counted as the Half. This was the first blackjack game where the player would automatically "bust" if the cards totaled over the desired number of 7-1/2.

Another blackjack game ancestor Spanish game One-and-Thirty is first recorded in the book "The Comical History of Rinconete and Cortadillo" dated 1570. In this game each player antes in and is dealt three cards followed by three community cards dealt to center table. Each player takes one community card and replaces it with a discard from their hand. The process continues until each player is "content" at which point the totals are taken.

By the early 1800's the French game Quinze in which the desired total was 15 had become quite popular. Princes, Dukes, Marquees and Prime Ministers, all crowded the Quinze tables, just like high society people are excited about blackjack game and online blackjack nowadays. Another French game, Trente-et-Quarante was and is still played with 6 decks of cards, with a croupier dealing out a row of black cards and a row of red cards sequentially after players have bet on either row. When each row totals over 30 the hand is closed. Bets on the row closest to 31 win even money and a tie, both rows totaling 31, gets the house to pocket half of all players' wagers. A number of in-row bets are possible bringing Trente-et-Quarante closer to roulette in its play than Blackjack.

Vingt-Un may be one of the closest ancestors to blackjack as it finally crossed the ocean in the late 1800's from Europe to America, were blackjack game originated. When "Twenty-One" the was first introduced in America it wasn't very popular so the gambling houses tried various bonus payouts to get the future blackjack fans to the tables. On such bonus was a 10-to-1 payout if the player's hand consisted of the Ace of Spades and a blackjack (either the Jack of Clubs of the Jack of Spades). This hand was called a "Blackjack" for obvious reasons and the name stuck even though the bonus payout was soon abolished. So, by 1919 special green-felted blackjack tables were being made and by 1931 blackjack game was the third most popular Nevada casino game after Roulette and Craps. In 1958 the Blackjack was on its way to being number one. Now online blackjack is just as popular as off-line blackjack, making the blackjack community enormous and keeping it multiplying.

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