Playing Twenty-one — to Win


If you like the blast and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Basically when betting on 21 you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should be dealt from the deck

When enjoying vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favor.

To do this when gambling on blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complex plans have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you wager on chemin de fer.

If when gambling on 21 you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is assembled around a simple plan of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on 21 when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s remarkably simple to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can get free cards on the net

Using it when you gamble on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the house because they help them acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on their first 2 cards).

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

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favor the player because they could break the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You just need to know when the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can boost your bet when the odds are in your favour.

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

When playing twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the edge in your favor by approx 2 percent.

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