If you like the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, wagering on Blackjack is for you.
So, how can you beat the dealer?
Basically when gambling on blackjack you are tracking the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe
When gambling on twenty-one there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when they are not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when betting on chemin de fer you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of complex systems have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually very easy when you play chemin de fer.
If when wagering on 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the edge to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around a simple approach of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when wagering on twenty-one when you need to hit or hold.
It’s remarkably easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the net
Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.
Counting cards getting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favor the house in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favour the dealer because they aid them make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their initial 2 cards).
In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.
The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break her.
The high cards favour the player because they could break the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Although blackjacks are, equally divided between the house and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.
You just need to know when the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can up your bet when the expectation is in your favor.
This is a simple explanation of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When wagering on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will help in altering the expectation in your favor by approximately 2 percent.
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