Saturday, January 06, 2007

The blackjack History

The blackjack is a native play of France though was in the United States where acquired boom as play of casino. The blackjack is not a play exclusively of chance. In the United States the play has been studied in great detail. The pioneer was, there in the years 60 Edward OR.Thorp, an employed mathematician of IBM that simulated in computer millions of hands played, coming to the conclusion that each private hand has an unique form of being played correctly. Al joint of these played him is called basic strategy, and its rigorous application permits to trim the advantage of the casino on the player, without this strategy basica the play in if, possesses an advantage matematica from 5%. but in its correct use this advantage is reduced to 0.5%.

Thorp arrived also to the conclusion that the high letters favor al player, since they are the base to obtain a good move al to double, or for do a blackjack that 3 to 2 is paid, while the small letters favor al croupier, since they permit him to do good the hands compromised (12, 13, 14, 15 or 16). This gave place al called count of letters, technical that consists of lose not sight of the letters played, to establish if among the ones that remain for play there is more high or low quantity of letters, and to wager consequently.

There it has been bookkeepers of mythical letters, that obtained large fortunes with this technique in the casinos. Ken Uston has been considered for many experts, the best bookkeeper of the history.

The bookkeepers of letters are not well seen in the casinos, and if the casino detects, or simply suspects that a player is counting, they will invite to change of play, or simply they will expel it of the casino being protected in the right of admission.

In any shape or form, the days of the bookkeepers seem to arrive at its end, since the casinos are installing machines of shuffles automatic, which does impossible the application of this technique.