Blackjack Strategy

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

So, how do you beat the casino?

Quite simply when betting on twenty-one you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might come from the shoe

When playing blackjack there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when wagering on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been investigating 21 all kinds of complicated plans have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you bet on 21.

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

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around a simple system of how you wager depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when playing 21 when you need to take another card or hold.

It is remarkably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find free cards on the net

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

Card counting getting the odds in your favour

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

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in 21 and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the croupier because they aid her acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on their first 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favor the gambler because they could bust the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

You simply need to know at what point the deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can jump your action when the odds are in your favor.

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

When betting on 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the expectation in your favour by approximately 2%.