03.03
Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win
If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, playing twenty-one is for you.
So, how do you beat the dealer?
Basically when wagering on blackjack you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe
When playing twenty-one there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is known 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 size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is 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 odds are in your favour.
To do this when betting on vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since professionals and academics have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you gamble on 21.
If when playing twenty-one you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favour.
21 Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated approach of how you bet based upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when wagering on blackjack when you need to hit or hold.
It’s unbelievably easy to do and is before long memorized and up until then you can find no charge guides on the internet
Using it when you play chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Card counting tilting the odds in your favor
Card counting works and players use a card counting approach obtain an edge over the casino.
The reason for this is easy.
Low cards favor the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the casino because they aid her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their 1st 2 cards).
In casino twenty-one, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.
The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust them.
The high cards favour the player because they might bust the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the house 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 don’t have to compute 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 at what point the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the expectation is in your favor.
This is a basic account of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.
When playing twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the edge in your favor by approx 2%.