02.20
Playing Twenty-one — to Win
If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, playing twenty-one is for you.
So, how do you defeat the dealer?
Basically when wagering on vingt-et-un you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe
When betting on twenty-one there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.
You’re only going to win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when wagering on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
fundamental strategy and counting cards
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of complicated systems have arisen, including "card counting" but although the idea is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you gamble on chemin de fer.
If when gambling on twenty-one you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favor.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated plan of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It tells you when betting on blackjack when you need to take another card or hold.
It’s extremely simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the net
Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.
Card counting getting the odds in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favor the croupier in 21 and high cards favour the player.
Low cards favor the croupier because they help him acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her 1st 2 cards).
In casino blackjack, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.
The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the dealer when he hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Although blackjacks are, evenly divided between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You don’t have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the casino.
You just need to know at what point the deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can jump your wager when the edge is in your favour.
This is a simple breakdown of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.
When playing 21 over an extended time card counting will help in shifting the odds in your favor by to around two percent.