Blackjack Strategy

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If you love the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you beat the house?

Quite simply when gambling on vingt-et-un you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can come from the shoe

When betting on blackjack there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when gambling on vingt-et-un you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been investigating 21 all sorts of complicated systems have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you play Blackjack.

If when wagering on blackjack you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is amassed around a basic plan of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when wagering on twenty-one when you should take another card or stand.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can find free cards on the internet

Using it when you bet on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting shifting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme realize an edge over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the house in chemin de fer and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the croupier because they aid him acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his initial 2 cards).

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

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the player because they may bust the casino when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You do not have to tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

You only need to know at what point the shoe is flush or reduced in high cards and you can boost your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When wagering on blackjack over an extended time card counting will aid in changing the expectation in your favor by approx two percent.