Playing Twenty-one — to Win

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If you love the fulfillment and excitement of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when betting on 21 you are studying the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the deck

When playing vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your wager 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 bet size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when gambling on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of abstract schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all straightforward when you wager on Blackjack.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you card count properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated system of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when gambling on 21 when you need to take another card or hold.

It’s extremely simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the internet

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

Counting cards shifting the edge in your favour

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

The reason for this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist them make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their first 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the house cannot.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the house when he hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When gambling on blackjack over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the odds in your favor by approximately 2 percent.

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