Playing 21 — to Win
November 27th, 2009 at 9:21
If you love the blast and adventure of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, playing twenty-one is for you.
So, how do you beat the dealer?
Quite simply when betting on 21 you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could come from the shoe
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 determine the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when playing 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and card counting
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying 21 all kinds of complicated plans have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex card counting is all in all straightforward when you gamble on chemin de fer.
If when betting on 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around an unsophisticated approach of how you wager depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when betting on twenty-one when you should hit or hold.
It is remarkably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the internet
Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Card counting shifting the expectation in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting system gain an advantage over the gambling den.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favor the house in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the croupier because they aid her make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on her first 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house cannot.
The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break her.
The high cards favour the player because they may bust the croupier when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Though blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.
You don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the casino.
You simply need to know when the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can up your action when the expectation is in your favor.
This is a basic commentary of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.
When gambling on 21 over an extended time card counting will assist in shifting the odds in your favor by approximately 2 percent.