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Playing Twenty-one — to Win

If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you defeat the dealer?

Basically when wagering on twenty-one you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the deck

When playing vingt-et-un 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 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 gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favor.

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

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying twenty-one all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you wager on chemin de fer.

If when wagering on blackjack you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated system of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when betting on 21 when you should hit or hold.

It is very easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find complimentary cards on the net

Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards shifting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach achieve an advantage over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the croupier because they aid her acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on her 1st 2 cards).

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

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may bust the house when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

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

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

When playing chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favor by approximately 2%.

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