Playing 21 — to Win


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If you like the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, gambling on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you defeat the casino?

Basically when wagering on twenty-one you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When wagering on 21 there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as 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 size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when playing blackjack you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying twenty-one all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including "card counting" but although the idea is complex card counting is pretty much very easy when you gamble on twenty-one.

If when betting on blackjack you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around a simple system of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s very simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get free cards on the net

Using it when you bet on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting getting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the house in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they help her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino cannot.

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

The high cards favor the gambler because they could break the croupier when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You simply need to know at what point the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the odds are in your favor.

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

When playing chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the edge in your favor by approx 2%.

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