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Playing Twenty-one — to Win

If you like the thrill and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Basically when betting on vingt-et-un you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can be dealt from the deck

When enjoying vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your action size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when betting on twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of abstract systems have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is actually straightforward when you play Blackjack.

If when wagering on chemin de fer you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around a simple approach of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when gambling on 21 when you need to take another card or hold.

It’s surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free guides on the internet

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

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the casino in blackjack and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the casino because they help them make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the casino when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can boost your bet when the expectation is in your favour.

This is a simple explanation of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.

When gambling on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the odds in your favor by to around 2 percent.

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