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Virtual BlackJack Virtual black jack
versus live black jack
I've spent a lot of time on the Internet over the
last 5 years. One thing I never tire of seeing online is nonsense,
especially unbelievable nonsense. And when it comes to gambling
subjects, nonsense is even more plentiful online than with other
subjects. Most of these bogus gambling system/gambling strategy salesmen share a theme. This theme is that the author of the gambling system that's being sold is in on some kind of inside information that isn't available to the general public. If it's a site about slot machines, then the author of the book is a slot machine technician. If it's a site about roulette, then the author of the book is a former roulette dealer. And if it's about blackjack, then the author of the book is either a former blackjack dealer or a card counter. Secret Blackjack Sales Pitches Here's how some of their pitches look: How To Make a Killing Playing Blackjack with our Secret Blackjack System Our Blackjack Secrets will enable you to leave the table with several hundred dollars in winnings every time you play I've spent years developing my brand new "Blackjack Secrets" system, where you double your bets at appropriate times in order to guarantee that you leave the blackjack table a winner. A knowledgeable blackjack player (one who has studied my "blackjack secrets") is one of the only gamblers in the casino who can gain an edge over the house with skilled play. And what's more... My blackjack secrets are so effective that you can be a guaranteed blackjack winner without counting cards! The first step to learning my secret blackjack strategy is memorizing basic blackjack strategy. When you learn basic strategy, you'll know when to stand, when to hit, when to double down, and when to split. You'll even know when to surrender. What is Basic Blackjack Strategy?: The second step to learning my secret blackjack strategy is to learn an effective money management system. You can learn basic strategy almost anywhere, but my secret blackjack money management system is the key to being a guaranteed blackjack winner every time you play! Derived from old French card games
like "Chemin de Fer" and "French Ferme," the
game of blackjack made its first appearance in French casinos around
1700. In France, blackjack is called "Vingt-et-Un," which
means "Twenty-and-A." The game garnered it's now-common
name of "blackjack" because when a player received a Jack
of Spades and an Ace of Spades as the first two cards that were
dealt to them, they would win an additional amount of money. Blackjack
became popular in the United States around the 1800's and continues
to be the most popular casino table game to date. The Optimum Strategy in Blackjack
(1956) Roger Baldwin wrote a paper in 1956 titled The Optimum Strategy in Blackjack. The paper was published by the Journal of the American Statistical Association and helped changed blackjack history forever. This paper was the first of it's kind to apply mathematical theory to the game of blackjack. Baldwin used probability, statistics, and calculators to show methods of reducing the casino advantage in blackjack. The paper was approximately 10 pages long and mainly consisted of mathematics and how they applied to card games. Professor Edward O. Thorp In 1962, Professor Edward O. Thorp, who is often referred to as the "Einstein of Blackjack", touched up the basic strategy that Baldwin had worked on and added the first known techniques of the now infamous tactics of card counting. Professor Throp published a famous book in 1963 called Beat the Dealer. The book was a national best seller. The casinos were affected so strongly by this book that they began to modify the game rules making it more difficult for players to win. Once again, the advantage had shifted back to the casino when they began changing the rules. It was during this time that casinos began introducing automatic card shuffling machines and multiple deck blackjack. Stanford Wong The next author to publish a famous book on blackjack was Stanford Wong, who wrote Professional Blackjack. This title used computer simulation to teach blackjack strategy and was designed for both beginning and advanced players. This book quickly became the standard blackjack bible for anyone who wanted to learn or master the game. Julian Brown Another large contributor to blackjack history was Julian Braun, a former IBM employee. Braun, a computer wizard, programmed thousands of lines of code for an IBM mainframe system, to simulate basic strategy. He developed new strategies for both basic strategy and card counting, which were published in the 2nd edition of Beat the Dealer. Ken Uston Electronic card counting devices were introduced in 1977 when Ken Uston's blackjack team built five pocket-sized computer devices that slid into their shoes. The team won over $100,000 in a short amout of time, as they assumed would happen, but eventually one of the computers was found and turned into the FBI. This computer device simply used public blackjack information, such as basic strategy, so the FBI ruled that it was not a cheating device. 60 Minutes, a popular news television show on CBS, aired an episode featuring Uston on their show in 1981 which lead to challenging casinos in Atlantic City on not allowing card counters to play. Ken Uston wrote a book called The Big Player which details all of his work in blackjack. MIT Blackjack Team In the early 1990's another famous card counting group called the MIT Blackjack Team formed, continuing in the tradition of basic strategy and counting techniques, but without any computerized assistance. This team won hundreds of thousands of dollars over a short amount of time. Eventually casinos caught the group of card counters and they were barred from casinos across the globe. This is blackjack history in a nutshell. To this day, blackjack remains the most popular and heavily played table game offered by casinos.
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