Playing 21 — to Win
If you love the fulfillment and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, playing Blackjack is for you.
So, how do you defeat the casino?
Basically when wagering on blackjack you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe
When gambling on twenty-one there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when they are not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when betting on twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since professionals and academics have been investigating 21 all sorts of complex systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually very easy when you play 21.
If when playing vingt-et-un you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the edge to your favour.
21 Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated approach of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when betting on twenty-one when you need to hit or hold.
It’s unbelievably simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get complimentary guides on the web
Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Card counting tilting the expectation in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an edge over the gambling den.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favour the house in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favour the croupier because they help him acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on her first 2 cards).
In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino can’t.
The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favor the player because they may bust the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the casino and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.
You simply need to know at what point the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can jump your wager when the expectation is in your favor.
This is a simple explanation of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.
When gambling on 21 over an extended term card counting will aid in altering the odds in your favour by approx 2 percent.