Blackjack Strategy

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

So, how can you defeat the dealer?

Basically when playing chemin de fer you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the shoe

When playing blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play every 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 are able to increase your action amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when playing vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of complicated schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex card counting is actually very easy when you gamble on 21.

If when gambling on 21 you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when playing twenty-one when you should take another card or hold.

It is remarkably simple to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find free cards on the web

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

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach obtain an edge over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the casino in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the house because they help them make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on his 1st two cards).

In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.

He has no choice 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 flush the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may break the dealer when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Though blackjacks are, evenly allocated 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 do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You just need to know when the shoe is flush or reduced in high cards and you can jump your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When gambling on vingt-et-un over an extended time card counting will aid in changing the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.