Playing 21 — to Win

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If you love the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Basically when gambling on vingt-et-un you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When wagering on 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 compute the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your bet 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 wager size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when betting on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of abstract plans have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you play Blackjack.

If when playing 21 you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

21 Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around an unsophisticated plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not counting cards. It informs you when wagering on blackjack when you should take another card or hold.

It’s surprisingly simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the internet

Using it when you bet on blackjack will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Card counting shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach realize an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the casino in blackjack and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the house because they aid him acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on their first two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier can’t.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

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

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly dispensed 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 do not have to tally the numbers 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 deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When playing chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will help in altering the edge in your favour by approx two percent.