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Playing 21 — to Win

If you love the thrill and excitement of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the house?

Quite simply when gambling on blackjack you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When wagering on vingt-et-un there is statistically a better 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 wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are 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 favour.

To do this when betting on blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating 21 all sorts of complicated systems have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when playing vingt-et-un you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a basic system of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when gambling on chemin de fer when you need to hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the web

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

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach realize an edge over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favor the house because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on his initial 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino cannot.

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

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

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

You do not have to add up the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

You simply need to know at what point the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can boost your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When gambling on 21 over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favour by approximately 2%.