Playing Twenty-one — to Win
If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, betting on 21 is for you.
So, how do you beat the casino?
Basically when wagering on chemin de fer you are observing the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards might come from the shoe
When playing twenty-one there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.
You are only going to win 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 vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.
fundamental tactics and card counting
Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you gamble on twenty-one.
If when gambling on blackjack you count cards properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.
21 Basic Strategy
Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you bet based upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when betting on chemin de fer when you should hit or hold.
It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get free guides on the net
Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Counting cards shifting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan gain an advantage over the casino.
The reason for this is easy.
Low cards favour the casino in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.
Low cards favor the casino because they help her acquire winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on his first 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.
She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust her.
The high cards favour the player because they may bust the dealer when he hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Although blackjacks are, equally divided between the casino and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.
You do not have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.
You just need to know at what point the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can increase your bet when the odds are in your favor.
This is a simple breakdown of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.
When playing twenty-one over an extended term card counting will assist in tilting the odds in your favour by approximately 2 percent.