Playing Blackjack — to Win

If you like the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, gambling on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on vingt-et-un you are watching the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When playing vingt-et-un there is mathematically a best way to play each 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 can boost your bet amount 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 action size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when wagering on blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been investigating 21 all sorts of complicated plans have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you wager on Blackjack.

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

21 Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around a basic plan of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when playing vingt-et-un when you need to hit or stand.

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

Using it when you play chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the croupier in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the dealer because they aid them make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the house can’t.

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favor the player because they may break the casino when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You just need to know when the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can jump your wager when the odds are in your favour.

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

When wagering on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the expectation in your favour by approx 2 percent.

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