Playing Blackjack — to Win
Friday, 24. February 2017
If you love the thrill and excitement of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, playing Blackjack is for you.
So, how do you beat the house?
Quite simply when wagering on chemin de fer you are tracking the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe
When playing 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 anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favor.
To do this when wagering on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating 21 all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complex card counting is actually very easy when you wager on Blackjack.
If when gambling on vingt-et-un you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated system of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to play without card counting. It informs you when playing 21 when you need to take another card or stand.
It’s surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find complimentary guides on the internet
Using it when you gamble on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.
Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting system achieve an advantage over the casino.
The reasoning behind this is simple.
Low cards favor the dealer in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favor the casino because they help him acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on her first two cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer cannot.
The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favour the player because they could break the dealer when he hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, evenly divided between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You do not have to add up the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.
You simply need to know at what point the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can up your bet when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a simple explanation of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.
When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favour by approximately 2%.
Posted in Blackjack by Claire