2016
04.30

Playing 21 — to Win

[ English ]

If you love the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Basically when wagering on vingt-et-un you are tracking the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should come from the deck

When wagering on chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your action size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when betting on chemin de fer you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying 21 all sorts of complex systems have been developed, including "card counting" but although the idea is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you bet on Blackjack.

If when wagering on 21 you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favor.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to play without card counting. It tells you when betting on 21 when you should take another card or stand.

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

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

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the casino because they assist her make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You do not have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You only need to know at what point the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the edge is in your favor.

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

When wagering on blackjack over an extended time card counting will aid in altering the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.

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