Playing Twenty-one — to Win

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Posted by Ciara | Posted in Blackjack | Posted on 29-05-2007

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If you like the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, betting on 21 is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

Basically when wagering on 21 you are watching the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When enjoying blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

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

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying 21 all kinds of abstract schemes have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on 21.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around a basic approach of how you wager based upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when playing chemin de fer when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s extremely simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find complimentary guides on the internet

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

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme achieve an edge over the casino.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favour the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the casino because they assist her acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their initial 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may break the house when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Though blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the croupier and the gambler, 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 add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You simply need to know at what point the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can up your bet when the edge is in your favor.

This is a simple explanation of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.

When gambling on blackjack over an extended time card counting will assist in altering the odds in your favor by approx 2 percent.