The game of blackjack (or something close to it) was first documented in the early 1600s in Cervantes’ Novelas Ejemplares. Since then, blackjack has become the most widely played casino card game in ...

I was playing blackjack in Nevada, and the gentleman sitting at third base, all the way to the players’ left, had a basic strategy card in his shirt pocket. He didn’t use it on every hand, but every ...