Playing Twenty-one — to Win
Posted in Blackjack on 05/07/2017 02:25 am by Dominique
If you like the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, playing 21 is for you.
So, how can you defeat the croupier?
Basically when playing blackjack you are tracking the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe
When playing blackjack there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.
You’re only going to win under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favor.
To do this when wagering on vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of complicated schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much very easy when you bet on chemin de fer.
If when playing chemin de fer you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favor.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated system of how you bet based upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when gambling on 21 when you need to take another card or stand.
It is remarkably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the web
Using it when you bet on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Card counting tilting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling den.
The reasoning behind this is simple.
Low cards favor the house in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the house because they aid her acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her initial 2 cards).
In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier cannot.
He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break her.
The high cards favour the player because they could bust the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the croupier and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.
You do not have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the dealer.
You only need to know when the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can jump your bet when the edge is in your favor.
This is a simple commentary of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.
When betting on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the expectation in your favor by approximately 2%.