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Playing Twenty-one — to Win
If you love the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.
So, how do you defeat the dealer?
Basically when playing twenty-one you are watching the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could come from the shoe
When wagering on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.
You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when betting on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
fundamental tactics and counting cards
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of complicated plans have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you play chemin de fer.
If when playing chemin de fer you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favor.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
21 basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated system of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when wagering on blackjack when you need to take another card or hold.
It is remarkably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the web
Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.
Card counting shifting the odds in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an advantage over the gambling den.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favour the casino in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favor the dealer because they help them make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her 1st two cards).
In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.
She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.
The high cards favour the player because they could break the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, evenly allocated 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 don’t have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You simply need to know when the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can jump your bet when the odds are in your favor.
This is a simple breakdown of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.
When playing chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will aid in shifting the odds in your favor by to around 2%.