Playing Blackjack — to Win
February 26th, 2016 at 9:21
If you love the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.
So, how do you defeat the dealer?
Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could come from the shoe
When betting on blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when betting on twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic tactics and card counting
Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you gamble on chemin de fer.
If when wagering on blackjack you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.
Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy
21 basic strategy is amassed around an unsophisticated system of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It informs you when playing 21 when you should take another card or hold.
It’s extremely easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can get free guides on the net
Using it when you play blackjack will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.
Card counting tilting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an edge over the gambling hall.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favour the house in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the house because they aid her make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their first two cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.
The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust them.
The high cards favour the gambler because they might break the casino when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Though blackjacks are, evenly distributed between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.
You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.
You just need to know when the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can boost your bet when the odds are in your favour.
This is a simple commentary of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.
When wagering on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will aid in altering the edge in your favour by approximately 2%.