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Playing 21 — to Win

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If you love the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you defeat the house?

Quite simply when wagering on vingt-et-un you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck

When wagering on vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when wagering on twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of complicated schemes have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated counting cards is all in all straightforward when you bet on 21.

If when playing blackjack you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around a basic approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It informs you when wagering on blackjack when you need to hit or stand.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get complimentary guides on the web

Using it when you gamble on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an edge over the gambling den.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the croupier in blackjack and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they help her make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the player because they could break the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Though blackjacks are, equally allocated between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.

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

You just need to know when the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can jump your wager when the odds are in your favour.

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

When wagering on twenty-one over an extended term card counting will aid in tilting the expectation in your favour by to around 2%.

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