Blackjack

Playing Blackjack — to Win

by Nina on Dec.24, 2009, under Blackjack

[ English ]

If you like the blast and excitement of a good card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on 21 is for you.

So, how do you defeat the casino?

Quite simply when gambling on vingt-et-un you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When playing vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager amount 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 bet on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when wagering on chemin de fer you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of complex plans have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you wager on 21.

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

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated system of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It informs you when playing blackjack when you should take another card or hold.

It’s extremely simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get no charge guides on the internet

Using it when you wager on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Counting cards getting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an edge over the gambling den.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the croupier in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the dealer because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on his first 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer cannot.

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break him.

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

Although blackjacks are, equally allocated between the croupier and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.

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 house.

You only need to know when the deck is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When betting on twenty-one over an extended term card counting will aid in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.


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