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Playing Blackjack — to Win

If you love the blast and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Basically when wagering on blackjack you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When playing blackjack there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your action amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

You are only going to succeed at 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 playing vingt-et-un you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of abstract schemes have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you play chemin de fer.

If when playing vingt-et-un you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around a simple approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when betting on twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can get free cards on the net

Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting getting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme obtain an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in 21 and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they assist them make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on his first 2 cards).

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

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the player because they might bust the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You simply need to know when the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can up your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

This is a basic account of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.

When wagering on blackjack over an extended time card counting will assist in shifting the edge in your favour by approximately 2 percent.