Playing Blackjack — to Win
If you like the fulfillment and excitement of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on twenty-one is for you.
So, how do you beat the house?
Quite simply when betting on blackjack you are observing the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards could come from the shoe
When enjoying chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.
You’re only going to win 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 playing chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying 21 all sorts of complicated schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you bet on chemin de fer.
If when playing blackjack you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favor.
Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around a basic plan of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you should take another card or stand.
It is extremely simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find free guides on the web
Using it when you play 21 will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.
Card counting tilting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the casino.
The reason for this is simple.
Low cards favor the dealer in twenty-one and high cards favour the player.
Low cards favour the croupier because they aid them make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her 1st two cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino can’t.
The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break them.
The high cards favour the player because they may break the croupier when he hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.
Though blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the croupier and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives 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 just need to know when the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can elevate your action when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a simple commentary of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When playing 21 over an extended term card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favour by approximately 2%.