A player blackjack wins instantly except the supplier also has one, by which case the hand is a push. If the vendor is dealt blackjack, all players who don’t have a blackjack lose. Blackjack’s instant precursor was the English version of twenty-one known as vingt-un, a recreation of unknown provenance. The first written reference is present in a e-book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes was a gambler, and the protagonists of his “Rinconete y Cortadillo”, from Novelas Ejemplares, are card cheats in Seville. They are proficient at cheating at veintiuno (Spanish for “twenty-one”) and state that the thing of the game is to succeed in 21 points with out going over and that the ace values 1 or 11.