If you love the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on Blackjack is for you.
So, how do you beat the casino?
Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards should come from the deck
When enjoying blackjack 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 coming out of the deck, then you can increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You’re only going to succeed at 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 betting on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
fundamental strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complicated plans have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you play Blackjack.
If when wagering on 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.
21 Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around a basic approach of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when gambling on 21 when you need to hit or stand.
It’s surprisingly easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find free guides on the internet
Using it when you gamble on blackjack will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system obtain an advantage over the casino.
The reason for this is easy.
Low cards favor the casino in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favor the croupier because they help them make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her initial two cards).
In casino blackjack, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer cannot.
He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favor the player because they may break the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the casino 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 add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.
You only need to know when the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can jump your action when the odds are in your favour.
This is a basic account of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.
When gambling on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by to around 2 percent.
