Playing Blackjack — to Win

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Posted by Reece | Posted in Blackjack | Posted on 12-06-2007

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If you like the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, gambling on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you defeat the house?

Basically when betting on 21 you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying twenty-one there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to 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 boost your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when playing vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complex plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you bet on 21.

If when playing vingt-et-un you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.

21 basic strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around a simple approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It informs you when playing 21 when you should take another card or hold.

It’s remarkably simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can get no charge guides on the web

Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme realize an advantage over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the croupier because they assist her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their first 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

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

The high cards favor the player because they might break the house when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Although blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the croupier 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 add up 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 when the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the edge is in your favor.

This is a basic explanation of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.

When betting on blackjack over an extended time card counting will assist in altering the odds in your favour by to around two percent.

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