Playing Twenty-one — to Win

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If you love the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you beat the house?

Basically when betting on twenty-one you are watching the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could come from the deck

When gambling on blackjack there is statistically a better 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 amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

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

fundamental strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying 21 all sorts of complicated systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you play twenty-one.

If when gambling on 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around an unsophisticated plan of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when betting on blackjack when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s extremely easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get free cards on the web

Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the casino because they aid her make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their first 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly divided between the casino and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.

You do not have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

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

This is a basic commentary of why card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into why the logic works.

When playing twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in altering the odds in your favor by approx 2%.