Playing Twenty-one — to Win

May 21st, 2007 by Iliana Leave a reply »
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If you love the blast and adventure of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Basically when gambling on blackjack you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When playing vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when betting on vingt-et-un you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of abstract plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you play Blackjack.

If when gambling on chemin de fer you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Chemin de fer basic strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around a basic approach of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when betting on 21 when you need to hit or stand.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get complimentary cards on the internet

Using it when you wager on 21 will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Card counting shifting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the croupier in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the dealer because they assist him acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on her first two cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the house can’t.

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the player because they might break the casino when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You just need to know when the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can increase your bet when the edge is in your favor.

This is a simple breakdown of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.

When playing chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the odds in your favour by approximately 2 percent.

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