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"Blackjack" is also called "21". Blackjack is one of the most popular casino games in the world. Those who play different casino games spend most of their time playing Blackjack. Blackjack rules are easy to understand and to learn. Blackjack gives the skilled player a consistent winning advantage over the house! A dealer and several players take part in Blackjack. Every player and the dealer have two cards each. Each player's hand is played against the dealer's hand only. If you obtain a hand value closer to twenty-one without going bust than the dealer does, your hand wins. The objective of Blackjack is to obtain a hand value as close to twenty-one as possible without going over. The objective of Blackjack is to Beat The Dealer! The most powerful hand possible is a hand value of twenty-one in your first two cards. An ace and a ten valued card will give you 21 or blackjack. When you receive a blackjack, the dealer will pay you three chips for every two that you have bet. If both you and the dealer have blackjacks your bet is simply retained by you. In this case you neither lose nor win. The player always has an advantage in Blackjack as it is a player who decides whether to take one more card or not and when. There are fixed rules governing the play for the dealer. The dealer must hit until he has seventeen or more. If a player obtains a hand value less than 21 or equal to 21 and greater than the dealer's hand value then a player wins an amount equal to his wager. Push is a comeout, when the hand total of the dealer and of the player are equal. A push is neither a win nor a loss. They say you go bust if the total value of your hand goes over 21. If you go bust you lose your bet. Even if the dealer also goes bust you still lose your bet. The dealer always plays out his hand last, which gives the dealer his greatest advantage over the players. Players have the advantage of flexible play. Players have four options. The player has to decide what to do after receiving first cards: he can stand, hit or split.

The first standardized deck of cards appeared in 1440. It was printed by Guttenberg. The first deck had only 50 cards. It is only natural that there began to appear much card games, which were very popular among aristocracy and royalty. One of these games was Blackjack, which derived the features of several card games. It had some features of Baccarat, some Italian and French games. The mixture of all these games was called twenty-one. In the late 1800s the game appeared in America, but it was not very popular here, people liked Craps and Roulette much more. To attract gamblers houses offered much bonuses and promotions to Blackjack players. The craziest bonus was the pay out 10:1 for the following combination of cards: an Ace and a blackjack. This combination of cards was called a Blackjack and Later this name was given to the game itself. Some time passed and the game of Blackjack got popular in America not among aristocracy, but all Americans. Nowadays Blackjack was the third in popularity after Craps and Roulette. Nowadays the casino game of Blackjack is one of the most popular games, it is even more popular than Craps and Roulette. Moreover, today animated blackjack is available.