Playing Twenty-one — to Win


If you love the thrill and excitement of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you defeat the house?

Quite simply when betting on twenty-one you are tracking the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the deck

When gambling on blackjack there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when gambling on 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complicated systems have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when betting on 21 you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated system of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when playing blackjack when you should hit or hold.

It is remarkably simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free cards on the internet

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

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor

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

The reason for this is easy.

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

Low cards favor the dealer because they help her make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their 1st two cards).

In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the croupier when he hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

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

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

You simply need to know when the deck is rich or depleted in high cards and you can increase your wager when the odds are in your favour.

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

When gambling on vingt-et-un over an extended time card counting will aid in tilting the odds in your favour by approximately 2 percent.

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