06.11
Playing Blackjack — to Win
If you like the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, playing Blackjack is for you.
So, how do you beat the dealer?
Quite simply when betting on 21 you are studying the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe
When enjoying twenty-one there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and lower 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 action size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when wagering on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the idea is complex counting cards is all in all straightforward when you wager on chemin de fer.
If when playing vingt-et-un you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favour.
Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated plan of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when betting on blackjack when you need to hit or hold.
It is very easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find complimentary cards on the internet
Using it when you gamble on 21 will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.
Card counting tilting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the casino.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favor the croupier in 21 and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the dealer because they help her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on her first two cards).
In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino can’t.
The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break them.
The high cards favour the player because they may bust the dealer when he hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally divided between the croupier and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.
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 simply need to know at what point the shoe is rich or poor in high cards and you can elevate your action when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a basic breakdown of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.
When wagering on chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will aid in changing the edge in your favour by approx two percent.