The History of Blackjack

There is often debate about the history of blackjack and why it is such a popular game. In reality I believe it is because it is such an easy game to play and learn. Here is some more indepth analysis on the history of blackjack.

Blackjack originated from France during the 1700’s, which eventually made its way to the United States in the 1800’s. At first however, blackjack was not a popular card game compared to other popular card games of the time.

Roger Baldwin had published his strategy of the game blackjack in 1956. His theory stated that the game of blackjack can be easily won with some mathematical strategies applied to the game. Other ideas that Roger Baldwin was able to deploy in his paper were the use of statistics, calculators, and probability in the game of blackjack. His research paper was approximately ten pages long. Baldwin is best known for changing the way blackjack is played today.