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Playing Twenty-one — to Win

If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when gambling on 21 you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can come from the shoe

When playing vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to increase your action size 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 bet size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when playing blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when betting on twenty-one you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated plan of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It informs you when wagering on vingt-et-un when you need to take another card or hold.

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

Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage 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 this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the casino because they assist them acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on their initial 2 cards).

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

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break them.

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

Though blackjacks are, equally allocated between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You do not have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You only need to know at what point the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can boost your wager when the odds are in your favor.

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

When gambling on chemin de fer over an extended term card counting will aid in tilting the odds in your favour by approx 2 percent.

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