Playing Twenty-one — to Win

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

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Basically when gambling on blackjack you are tracking the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck

When wagering on blackjack 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 chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favor.

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

fundamental strategy and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying 21 all kinds of complicated schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you play 21.

If when wagering on 21 you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centralized around a basic system of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It tells you when gambling on twenty-one when you should hit or stand.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free cards on the web

Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favour the dealer in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the dealer because they aid her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his initial two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier cannot.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the house when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Although blackjacks are, equally distributed between the croupier and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the gambler 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 edge over the casino.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can increase your action when the edge is in your favour.

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

When betting on 21 over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the edge in your favour by approx 2 percent.

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