I want to start out right away by telling you about myself. I spent over 10 years in the casino business in Las Vegas. During that time I was employed as a dealer, boxman, floorman, pit boss, and assistant casino manager. I have seen every casino game and probably every kind of system player there [...]

Blackjack was derived from the French game vingt-et-un or twenty-one which originated in the 1700s. The Blackjack name came about as casinos in the USA, in order to attract players offered odds of up to 10 to 1 to any player who’s hand consisted of an Ace of spades and a blackjack (jack of spades [...]