Playing 21 — to Win

If you love the fulfillment and excitement of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, wagering on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you beat the house?

Basically when betting on blackjack you are tracking the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the shoe

When enjoying 21 there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

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

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

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of complex schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when betting on vingt-et-un you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you bet based upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to play without card counting. It tells you when wagering on vingt-et-un when you should take another card or hold.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can find complimentary guides 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 approach gain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the casino because they help her make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

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

Although 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 gambler has an edge.

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

You only need to know at what point the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can increase your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

This is a simple account of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.

When wagering on 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the expectation in your favor by to around two percent.

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