Blackjack Online

Blackjack is played in online casinos, is one of the most popular card games and follow the world with the poker.

For those who do not know the rules of blackjack, or even have never heard of, it is best to start slowly by practicing the procedures offered by free casino sites. In this way, you can safely use the few but essential rules of the blackjack without spending a penny of your own and when you're ready to play for real money you have already an experience that you could afford to win the first money.

The goal is to get a score higher than the one with the dealer without exceeding 21 points. If you get a score higher than 21, you lose all your chips into play. The game then takes place between the player and the dealer and since there are rules of secrecy is not necessary to play with cards, so the game can entertain and excite all players around the table.

Blackjack's precursor was Twenty-one, a game of unknown origin. The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote. Cervantes was a gambler, and the main characters of his tale "Rinconetey  Cortadillo", from "Novelas  Ejemplares", are a couple of cheaters working in Seville.

They are proficient at cheating at 21 blackjack, and state that the object of the game is to reach 21 points without busting and that the ace values 1 or 11. The game is played with the Spanish deck, which lacks eights, nines and tens. This short story was written between 1601 and 1602, implying that the ventiuna was played in Castilians since the beginning of the 17th Century or earlier.

Professional gamblers soon realized the potential of manipulating the odds and bets in this game. Without any law to regulate this aspect of gambling stakes gradually surfaced and continued to grow until about the early nineteenth century, or at least helped to create an enabling environment for organized crime.