Playing 21 — to Win

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If you like the fulfillment and adventure of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favor, gambling on 21 is for you.

So, how do you defeat the casino?

Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying 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 calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

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

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complicated schemes have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated system of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when wagering on blackjack when you need to take another card or hold.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is before long committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you wager on 21 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 system gain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the croupier because they aid them make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her first 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favor the player because they may bust the house when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You just need to know when the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can increase your wager when the odds are in your favour.

This is a basic explanation of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.

When playing 21 over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by approx 2%.

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