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the only casino game where a smart player can flip the house's edge entirely.
means A card game in which players aim to get their cards as close to 21 as possible without going over, beating the dealer's hand.
from The name points straight at the goal: hitting 21, often called 'twenty-one' in older English and French (vingt-et-un) gambling halls. The 'blackjack' label took hold in American casinos, where some houses sweetened the pot with a bonus payout for a hand of the ace of spades paired with a black jack (clubs or spades) — a 'black jack.' The bonus faded, but the catchy name stuck. The same word also names a leather-covered bludgeon and a tarred drinking jug, all sharing that plain old 'black' for color plus 'jack,' a workhorse English word for a thing or a fellow.
- name origin
- early bonus paid out on black jack cards
- card counting
- legal, brilliant, and grounds for getting banned
- target
- 21, beat the dealer without busting
- house edge
- under 1% with perfect basic strategy
- MIT team
- students counted their way to millions
las vegas blackjack tables — the strip casinos deal millions in blackjack daily, with house edge of 0.5-1% depending on rules
mit blackjack team — students from mit won approximately $5 million from casinos 1979-1995 using card counting
don johnson atlantic city — professional gambler won $15.1 million at blackjack in atlantic city casinos in 2010-2011