Betting House Games – Black Jack

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Posted by Heath | Posted in Blackjack | Posted on 05-02-2010

Whether you’re new to betting house gaming or a gambling old-timer, black jack is 1 of the simplest and most exciting games betting houses have to share. The goal in chemin de fer is to best the dealer by getting a hand value as near to 21 as as you can and not going over. To bet on chemin de fer, you need only a general understanding of the rules and a ambition to have excitement.

So how do you achieve twenty-one? In chemin de fer, the cards have values. Numbered cards two through 10 are valued at face value, while every face cards (King, Queen and Jack) are valued at 10 points. The ace card is a special card in twenty-one: you make a decision whether it is worth one or eleven points. Since casino gamblers are given two cards to begin, if you are dealt an ace and a face card or ten,you have twenty one-an immediate success, as long as the dealer does not get twenty-one as well. This twocard winning hand is called a "black jack"; hence the name of the game!

Casino game rules for twenty-one are essentially the same at all casinos. After you are dealt your first two cards, your options are to take another card, stand, double your wager and take one card, split, or sometimes bow out.

When you gamble on chemin de fer at a betting house, be sure to know which game table to pick. Most casinos have color coded black jack tables corresponding with the min bet the table accepts, usually $3, five dollars, twenty-five dollars or 100 dollars. In any betting house, it is a given the 3 dollar and 5 dollar tables will be filled, but they’re fantastic for newbies at twenty-one due to the fact that all of the cards are given out face-up, as opposed to the 1up, 1down way at higher tables. So the next instanceor the first time-you visit a casino, be certain to visit the chemin de fer tables and aim for 21!

The Origin of Twenty-One

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Posted by Heath | Posted in Blackjack | Posted on 02-02-2010

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The game of black jack was introduced to the United States in the 19th century but it wasn’t until the middle of the twentieth century that a system was developed to defeat the casino in chemin de fer. This material is going to take a quick look at the development of that system, Card Counting.

When gambling was legalized in Nevada in 1934, twenty-one screamed into universal appeal and was most commonly played with 1 or two decks. Roger Baldwin published a paper in ‘56 which described how to reduce the house advantage built on probability and stats which was really difficult to understand for those who weren’t math experts.

In ‘62, Dr. Edward O. Thorp utilized an IBM 704 computer to better the mathematical strategy in Baldwin’s dissertation and also created the first strategies for card counting. Dr. Ed Thorp wrote a tome called "Beat the Dealer" which detailed card counting techniques and the tactics for lowering the house edge.

This spawned a massive increase in chemin de fer players at the US casinos who were trying to put into practice Dr. Thorp’s strategies, much to the alarm of the casinos. The strategy was hard to comprehend and difficult to carry through and thusly expanded the earnings for the casinos as more and more folks took to betting on twenty-one.

However this large growth in profits wasn’t to continue as the gamblers became more refined and more accomplished and the system was further improved. In the 1980’s a group of students from MIT made counting cards a part of the everyday vernacular. Since then the casinos have introduced countless methods to thwart players who count cards including, more than one deck, shoes, shuffle machines, and speculation has it, sophisticated computer software to analyze body language and identify "cheaters". While not prohibited being discovered counting cards will get you banned from many casinos in vegas.