Blackjack

thumb Blackjack (formerly black jack or vingt-un) is a casino banking game. It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as "twenty-one". This family of card games also includes the European games vingt-et-un and pontoon, and the Russian game Ochko. The game is a comparing card game where players compete against the dealer, rather than each other. Quotes The atmosphere of ignorance and superstition surrounding the blackjack table that day had convinced me that even good players didn’t understand the mathematics underlying the game. I returned home intending to find a way to win. Thorp Edward O. w:Edward O. Thorp 2016 A Man for All Markets: Beating the Odds, from Las Vegas to Wall Street Oneworld Publications External links Q228044 no Card Games/Blackjack no Category:Blackjack no Category:Card games