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Playing 21 — to Win

If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a good card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better 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 boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.

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

fundamental strategy and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying 21 all sorts of complicated schemes have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you bet on Blackjack.

If when wagering on vingt-et-un you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around a simple system of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when betting on 21 when you need to hit or stand.

It’s extremely simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free cards on the internet

Using it when you play blackjack will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the house in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the house because they aid them acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on his initial two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favor the player because they might bust the house when she hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Although blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the casino and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You just need to know when the deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can up your wager when the edge is in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favor by to around 2 percent.

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