Playing Twenty-one — to Win


If you love the thrill and adventure of a great 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 house?

Basically when gambling on 21 you are tracking the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on 21 there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your wager size 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 wager size when the odds are in your favour.

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

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying Blackjack all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complex card counting is pretty much straightforward when you bet on 21.

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

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around a basic approach of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when wagering on 21 when you need to hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the web

Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting getting the edge in your favor

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

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the casino because they assist him make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on their initial two cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer cannot.

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

The high cards favour the player because they could break the dealer when he hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can increase your bet when the edge is in your favour.

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

When playing blackjack over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the edge in your favour by approximately two percent.

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