Playing 21 — to Win
Posted in Blackjack on 10/30/2015 04:21 pm by Susan
If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, gambling on Blackjack is for you.
So, how can you beat the croupier?
Quite simply when gambling on blackjack you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards might come from the shoe
When wagering on twenty-one there is mathematically a better 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 are able to increase your bet size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when they are not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you wager 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 should use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic tactics and card counting
Since professionals and scientists have been studying 21 all kinds of complicated schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex card counting is actually very easy when you play twenty-one.
If when betting on 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favor.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
21 basic strategy is centered around a basic plan of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when wagering on twenty-one when you should hit or stand.
It’s very easy to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can get complimentary cards on the internet
Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Card counting shifting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme obtain an edge over the casino.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favor the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the player.
Low cards favour the dealer because they help him acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).
In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.
The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.
The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, equally divided between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.
You do not have to tally the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.
You only need to know when the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the edge is in your favor.
This is a simple breakdown of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When wagering on vingt-et-un over an extended time card counting will assist in tilting the edge in your favor by to around 2%.