Roger Baldwin published a paper titled "The Optimum
Strategy in Blackjack", explaining how to reduce the house advantage by using
probability and statistics. Edward O. Thorp published "Beat the Dealer". He refined the strategy in Edward Thorps
paper and developed the first card counting technique, a skill with which
players can turn the odds of the game in their favor by making betting
decisions based on the values of the cards known to remain in the deck. The
technique shifted the advantage from ~5% for the house, to around a percent or
so for the player.
Everyone wanted to try out Edward Thorps strategy and
began frequenting casinos to implement it. This caused many casinos to change
their Blackjack rules because they feared losing money to the players, thus
causing players to cease playing blackjack. This in turn made casinos change
the rules back.
Beat the Dealer, has gone through many changes and
modernization, several people have updated and revised the popular book. This
book ended up making more money for casinos as more people played blackjack as
a result of the book.
The most common type of Blackjack is played with one or
two decks. The game is played by the Dealer dealing 1 card face down and 1 card
face up. The goal of every player is to reach 21 or as close to it without
going over. If any player has an ace and any ten value card (10, J, Q, K) they
have Blackjack and are automatic winners. The play proceeds with players taking
cards from the dealer until they either bust (go over 21), reach it, or are as
close as they want to try to be. The goal is to beat the dealer. The dealer
MUST stay at 17 or higher. The dealer MUST hit at 16 or lower. You can have a
push which is having a hand equal to that of the dealer. If the dealer gets a
blackjack all other players lose automatically.
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