Playing Blackjack — to Win
Posted in Blackjack on 12/22/2015 12:21 am by Alex
If you like the fulfillment and adventure of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how can you defeat the croupier?
Basically when playing twenty-one you are looking at the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards might come from the shoe
When playing 21 there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to increase your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds 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 odds are in your favor.
To do this when wagering on vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.
fundamental tactics and card counting
Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all sorts of complex plans have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you bet on twenty-one.
If when playing chemin de fer you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favor.
Chemin de fer Basic Strategy
Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated plan of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when wagering on twenty-one when you need to hit or hold.
It’s remarkably simple to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can find free guides on the internet
Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Card counting shifting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme achieve an advantage over the casino.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favour the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the player.
Low cards favor the dealer because they aid her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on her initial two cards).
In casino twenty-one, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.
The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favor the player because they may break the casino when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.
Although blackjacks are, equally divided between the house and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You don’t have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.
You only need to know when the deck is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can jump your wager when the odds are in your favor.
This is a basic breakdown of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When wagering on blackjack over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the expectation in your favor by approximately 2%.