Playing 21 — to Win

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If you like the blast and adventure of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when wagering on vingt-et-un you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When gambling on chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to increase your action size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when betting on vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental strategy and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating 21 all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when wagering on chemin de fer you card count properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favour.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around a basic plan of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or stand.

It is extremely easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the web

Using it when you bet on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Counting cards getting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an edge over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favour the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the casino because they help him acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his 1st two cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may bust the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally distributed between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.

You do not have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You only need to know at what point the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can increase your wager when the edge is in your favour.

This is a simple breakdown of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.

When playing 21 over an extended time card counting will aid in tilting the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.