Upon my maiden voyage to Marseille in 1699, I found myself, as usual, at the local gaming parlor. There I met a scallywag pirate of a dealer named Noir Jacque. He was playing a game he called "vingt-et-un" (twenty-one) and invited me to play. I was a young impressionable lad and didn't know the rules of the game and he took me fer all me money. At that moment I vowed to figure out the best strategies to win and brought the game to the Americas.

At first, the game wasn't very popular. To remedy this, I convinced gambling houses to start offering bonus payouts to get players interested. One bonus was a 10-to-1 payout if the player's hand consisted of the Ace of spades and a Black Jack (either the Jack of clubs or the Jack of spades). This hand was called a "blackjack" and the name stuck even though the bonus payout was soon abolished at land-based casinos. Now the online casinos are doing the bonuses to attract players and blackjack refers to any two cards that combine to equal 21.

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