Blackjack

If you like the blast and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, betting on 21 is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play each 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 can boost your wager 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 risks are in your favour.

To do this when playing 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating 21 all kinds of complex systems have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you play 21.

If when betting on vingt-et-un you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around a simple plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when wagering on twenty-one when you should hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find free cards on the web

Using it when you play chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Counting cards getting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting system achieve an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the casino in 21 and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the house because they help her make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their initial 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favor the player because they could break the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Although blackjacks are, equally distributed between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.

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

You only need to know at what point the deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can jump your bet when the odds are in your favour.

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

When gambling on 21 over the longer term card counting will aid in altering the expectation in your favor by approximately 2%.