Blackjack is one of the most popular casino card games played in the world today, its popularity far greater than even Poker, and is rated as the 3rd most popular casino game in the world. Part of its lure lies in its simplicity. Unlike many other card games with complex sets of rules and variations in play requiring a certain amount of skill and time to grasp, Blackjack remains a fairly simple game and the basic blackjack strategy is quite simple and you face the same situations over and over again. Blackjack also remains one of the few casino games where players can make the house edge very small (0.5%), when played correctly that is. This is a huge draw to the professional gambler who equipped with basic strategy and knowledge of the game can turn Blackjack into the most lucrative of casino games. Despite the earliest card games being believed to have been played by the Chinese, the French are usually credited for inventing Blackjack, believed to be a derivative of French card games “chemin de fer” and “French Ferme”. The game “vingt-et-un” (twenty-and-one) originated in French casinos around 1700 A.D., and migrated to the United States in the 1800’s. Even today Blackjack is played in pretty much the same manner as it was in the 1800s, with the exception of a few variations in rules. However the medium in which it is played has been revolutionized with Online Blackjack rapidly becoming the most popular online casino game.