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Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win
If you like the blast and excitement of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favor, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.
So, how do you beat the house?
Basically when gambling on twenty-one you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could be dealt from the deck
When betting on twenty-one 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 coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when playing blackjack you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and card counting
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying twenty-one all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you play chemin de fer.
If when wagering on twenty-one you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favor.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
21 basic strategy is assembled around a basic plan of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when playing chemin de fer when you need to hit or stand.
It is very simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find no charge cards on the internet
Using it when you bet on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Counting cards getting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and players use a card counting system gain an edge over the gambling den.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favour the dealer in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the croupier because they help her acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their initial two cards).
In casino chemin de fer, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.
He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the casino when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.
Although blackjacks are, evenly divided between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You do not have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You just need to know at what point the deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can boost your bet when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a basic explanation of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.
When gambling on 21 over an extended term card counting will help in shifting the edge in your favour by approx two percent.