Playing Blackjack — to Win

If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Basically when wagering on twenty-one you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can come from the shoe

When enjoying twenty-one there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your action amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when playing twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when betting on twenty-one you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is amassed around a basic system of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when betting on vingt-et-un when you should hit or stand.

It’s remarkably simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get free guides on the web

Using it when you bet on blackjack will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

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

The reason this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the casino because they help them acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her first two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

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

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

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

You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You only need to know at what point the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can jump your bet when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When betting on blackjack over an extended term card counting will aid in shifting the expectation in your favor by approx 2 percent.

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