For specific tips, we present two charts depending on whether the dealer hits or stands on soft 17. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as 'twenty-one'. From top to bottom are the hard totals, soft totals, and splittable hands. Blackjack (formerly black jack and vingt-un) is a casino banking game.: 342 It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. 'It's doesn't matter if a joker is played you just get a new one.'