Blackjack is one of the most favored games bet on in casinos. Blackjack is also known as "twenty one" or "pontoon." The game is a mix of chance and ability combined with choices. The card game has adapted over a period of time. Players have specialized in specific skills like "card card counting," with which they turn the odds of the game in their direction. The game has been around since the 18th century. References can be located in historical scriptures to a card game referred to as "vingt-et-un," which means twenty one in French, and is thought of as the ancestor to blackjack.
The card game was at first not so popular in the states. This led to the gambling houses attempting a variety of things like providing a reward in case of a 10-to-1 pay out, if the player had an ace of spades and a black jack. The jack could be either the jack of clubs or spades. After the game became popular, the reward pay out before long disappeared from the game.
Any hand which achieves a sum of twenty-one is considered a winner. The value can not go beyond twenty one, in which case the hand is considered to be "bust." The goal of every player is to defeat the croupier. If both the player and the casino have an identical score, it is called "push," with neither the black jack player or the croupier winning the hand.