Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win

If you love the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can 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. What your hand is

2. What cards might come from the deck

When enjoying 21 there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are 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 twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating chemin de fer all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complex counting cards is all in all straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when wagering on 21 you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated system of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when playing chemin de fer when you should hit or hold.

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

Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the odds in your favour

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

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the casino because they help him acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house cannot.

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

The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You do not have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

You only need to know at what point the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can boost your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

This is a basic breakdown of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.

When wagering on blackjack over an extended time card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favour by approx 2 percent.

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