Playing 21 — to Win

If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a good card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on 21 is for you.

So, how do you defeat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on 21 you are looking at the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might come from the deck

When betting on twenty-one there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favor.

To do this when betting on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of abstract plans have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much very easy when you bet on 21.

If when betting on vingt-et-un you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around a simple approach of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when wagering on blackjack when you need to take another card or stand.

It is extremely simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the net

Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favor

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

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favor the croupier in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the croupier because they aid them make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his initial two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the house cannot.

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the player because they could bust the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Although blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the casino and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.

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

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can jump your bet when the odds are in your favour.

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

When playing twenty-one over an extended term card counting will aid in shifting the edge in your favour by to around two percent.

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