Playing Twenty-one — to Win
If you like the blast and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on 21 is for you.
So, how do you beat the casino?
Basically when playing blackjack you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe
When playing chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your wager amount when the odds are 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 wager size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when playing blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you bet on chemin de fer.
If when gambling on blackjack you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favour.
Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It tells you when gambling on blackjack when you should take another card or hold.
It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can get complimentary guides on the net
Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.
Card counting tilting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and players use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the casino.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favor the house in twenty-one and high cards favour the player.
Low cards favour the croupier because they help her make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).
In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the house cannot.
He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favour the player because they may break the house when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Though blackjacks are, evenly divided between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.
You don’t have to compute the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.
You just need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the edge is in your favour.
This is a basic account of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When playing blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by approx 2%.
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