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Before getting a grasp on a blackjack strategy you must first learn a little about blackjack history. Here is a quick Blackjack
History to get you acquainted with the game. Blackjack
was derived from the french game vingt-et-un or twenty-one.
Until about the mid 1950's, it was believed that the
game was alot like baccarat and the house had the
edge because the player played first.
In 1956, a paper was published by Baldwin, Cantey,
Maisel, and McDermott in the "Journal of the
American Statistical Association" laying out
a set of recommendations for the play of the game,
these recommendations were very close to today's
basic strategy. The following year, they published
a manual for the public with this system of play,
but it attracted little interest until, Edward O.
Thorp(PhD), saw the paper and understood that there
were parts of the game that had been missed in the
past. The first being that the composition of the
deck changed with each card dealt, also, some combinations
of the remaining cards favoured the house and others
favoured the players.
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