Black Jack is possibly one of the more well-known games bet on in casinos. Black jack is also known as 21 or Chemin de Fer. The game is a combination of luck and ability combined with decision-making. The card game has changed over a set amount of time. Players have specialized in specific skills like "card card counting," with which they turn the edge in the game in the players direction. The game has been around since the 1700s. References can be located in historical documents to a card game known as "vingt-et-un," which means 21 in French, and is deemed as the ancestor to black jack.
The card game was initially not very well-liked in the states. This led to the gambling houses attempting a variety of things like offering a bonus like a 10-to-1 pay out, if the player got a "black" jack and an ace of spades. The jack could be either clubs or spades. Once the card game became well-known, the bonus pay out soon disappeared from the rules.
Any hand which reaches a value of twenty-one is deemed a winner. The total should not go beyond twenty-one, if it does the hand is said to be "bust." The target of each player is to defeat the croupier. If the blackjack player and the dealer both have an identical hand value, it is called "push," with neither the black jack player nor the dealer winning the hand.
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