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Playing 21 — to Win
If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, playing twenty-one is for you.
So, how can you defeat the dealer?
Basically when playing chemin de fer you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards could come from the deck
When betting on vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.
You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when betting on blackjack you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic tactics and card counting
Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of complicated schemes have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually very easy when you gamble on chemin de fer.
If when gambling on 21 you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around a basic approach of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when wagering on chemin de fer when you need to hit or hold.
It’s very easy to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can get complimentary guides on the internet
Using it when you gamble on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.
Counting cards getting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.
The reason for this is simple.
Low cards favor the croupier in blackjack and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the casino because they help them acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her initial 2 cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the house cannot.
The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break her.
The high cards favour the gambler because they might break the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.
Though blackjacks are, equally divided between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You just need to know when the deck is rich or poor in high cards and you can boost your action when the edge is in your favor.
This is a basic breakdown of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.
When gambling on 21 over an extended term card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favour by to around two percent.
