Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win
Posted in Blackjack on 08/30/2007 10:20 am by Alex
If you love the blast and excitement of a good card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.
So, how can you defeat the casino?
Quite simply when playing blackjack you are tracking the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could be dealt from the deck
When gambling on twenty-one there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your bet size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.
You are only going to win 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 wagering on 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating Blackjack all sorts of complicated systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you play Blackjack.
If when betting on vingt-et-un you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.
Chemin de fer basic strategy
21 basic strategy is centralized around a basic approach of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when betting on vingt-et-un when you should take another card or hold.
It’s surprisingly easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get free guides on the internet
Using it when you gamble on 21 will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Card counting tilting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an advantage over the gambling hall.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favor the house in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favor the house because they assist him make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his initial 2 cards).
In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the house cannot.
The house has no decision 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 shoe is in high cards that will break them.
The high cards favour the player because they could break the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Though blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You don’t have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.
You just need to know when the deck is rich or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a simple explanation of why card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.
When gambling on chemin de fer over an extended term card counting will assist in tilting the odds in your favour by to around 2%.