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Blackjack Games Online
Gambling was legal out West from the 1850's to 1910, at which time
Nevada made it a crime to work a gambling game. In 1931, Nevada
re-legalized casino gambling where BlackJack turned out to be one of the primary
games of chance presented to gamblers. As some of you may recall, 1978
was the year casino gambling was legalized in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
As of 1989, only two states had legalized casino gambling. Since then,
about 20 states have had a number of small time casinos sprout up
in places such as Black Hawk and Cripple Creek, Colorado and in river
boats on the Mississippi. Roughly 70 Native American Indian reservations
operate or are building casinos as well.
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In addition to the United States, countries operating casinos include France, England, Monaco (Monte Carlo of course) and quite a few in the Caribbean islands. The first recognized effort to apply mathematics to BlackJack began in 1953 and culminated in 1956 with a published paper. Roger Baldwin wrote a paper in the Journal of the American Statistical Association titled "The Optimum Strategy in BlackJack". These pioneers used calculators and probability and statistics theory to substantially reduce the house advantage. Although the title of their paper was 'optimum strategy', it wasn't really the best strategy because they really needed a computer to refine their system. |
