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Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win

If you love the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the house?

Quite simply when gambling on vingt-et-un you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can come from the deck

When gambling on twenty-one there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

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

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

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including "card counting" but although the idea is complex card counting is actually very easy when you wager on twenty-one.

If when betting on chemin de fer you card count properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the edge to your favor.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around an unsophisticated approach of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play without card counting. It informs you when playing blackjack when you should take another card or hold.

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

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

Card counting shifting the edge in your favor

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

The reason for this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the house because they help them make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on his initial 2 cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier can’t.

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

The high cards favor the player because they may bust the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You only need to know when the shoe is loaded or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the edge is in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the odds in your favour by approx two percent.

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