Blackjack, previously also Black Jack, Vingt-Un and Blackjack, is the American variant of the Spanish version of the identical game, called 21. The origin of this name is somewhat vague. Some historians feel that it may have come from either the Spanish or French words’joker’ and’ring’. However, the most likely origin, based on expert analysis, is’banda’, which means’a group’ in Spanish and means’card’ in French. Thus, Blackjack was simply called such, and Blackjack gained global recognition as one of the most popular casino card games in existence now.
Blackjack has many similarities with the well-known Caribbean gaming card game”Puerto Rican Patience”, also known as 21. In both games, players take turns laying down money on the playing area’s’bed’ (a marked area on the card’s surface in which the cards are laid out in sequential numbers, hence the name). The goal in game is to reach 21, then win the pot (wherein an amount of money is split among all players; see the next paragraph for the rules of…