Playing Twenty-one — to Win
by Silas on Friday, July 24th, 2009
If you like the fulfillment and excitement of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.
So, how do you beat the house?
Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards possibly could come from the deck
When enjoying twenty-one there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.
You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when betting on chemin de fer you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.
fundamental tactics and card counting
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating Blackjack all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much very easy when you gamble on Blackjack.
If when wagering on blackjack you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favour.
Blackjack basic strategy
21 basic strategy is centered around a uncomplicated plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when wagering on twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.
It’s very easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the web
Using it when you gamble on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.
Counting cards getting the expectation in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an edge over the casino.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favor the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the dealer because they help her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her initial 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.
The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally divided between the casino and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.
You don’t have to compute 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 poor in high cards and you can boost your action when the edge is in your favor.
This is a basic explanation of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.
When playing vingt-et-un over an extended term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.
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