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Playing 21 — to Win

If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when betting on 21 you are looking at the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can come from the shoe

When playing chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your action amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is 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 risks are in your favour.

To do this when gambling on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complicated schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is all in all very easy when you gamble on 21.

If when gambling on 21 you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is amassed around a basic approach of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when playing vingt-et-un when you should take another card or hold.

It’s remarkably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can find no charge guides on the internet

Using it when you bet on 21 will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system realize an edge over the gambling den.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the croupier in blackjack and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the dealer because they assist them acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their initial 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino can’t.

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the house.

You just need to know when the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can up your action when the odds are in your favor.

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

When betting on blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in changing the expectation in your favour by to around 2%.

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