The game blackjack came from France. This game is date from 1700 in the land based casinos from Paris. Also this card game is also known as 21 (vingt-et-un in french). When this game was introduce in the United States, it wasn’t as popular as it is now. So the casinos back then had to offer many types of promotions/bonuses to the player in order to make them play this new casino card game. One of the bonuses that was rewarded to the new players of blackjack back then was a 10 to 1 bonus payout if the player’s had an ace of

spades and a black jack. This is why the game was named blackjack. At the beginning the game was named by the french 21. After some time the casinos took off that bonus, and let the game be just like it now.

As time goes by more and more people started to enjoy this game, and soon it become one of the most popular casino game in the world. There are some online casinos that are focusing only on this game like BlackjackBallRoom. Some people managed to create some really big blackjack tournaments, where players from all around the world compete for a grand prize. This way all you have to do is deposit an entry fee of $50 and you will be in a great challenge with the best players from all around the world.

During the blackjack history many people wrote a lot of books, about the winning strategies at blackjack. These books were successful, some are a must have for any professional player.

An important moment in the history of blackjack was the moment, when for the first time some people invented a card counting electronic device. That was a handheld small device. This happened in 1977. When Ken Uston invented that device, and multiplicate it, and gave to another 5 friends of his the device, and went to hit the casinos. It is written in papers that they managed to take out $100k, from casinos from Atlantic City, another great destination for casino players besides Las Vegas. One of his friends was caught by a casino, and had the device confiscated. The device was turned to the FBI, and after some investigations, he was declared to be innocent, because it only uses information that are public, and that anyone could see. This was the official answer to this happening. But the casinos didn’t have the same opinion about this. It is a well known fact that if you get caught by doing something to trick the casinos even if it’s legal, you will be banned from the casino, and there is an international list, that all the major casinos are using, and by using that list you will not be able to enter a casino in the future, since this kind of places are only allowing selected guest to enter it.