Playing 21 — to Win
If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on 21 is for you.
So, how do you defeat the casino?
Basically when betting on 21 you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could be dealt from the shoe
When betting on twenty-one there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You’re only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favor.
To do this when wagering on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying Blackjack all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you play Blackjack.
If when wagering on 21 you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated approach of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when betting on twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.
It’s unbelievably simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can get free cards on the internet
Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.
Card counting getting the expectation in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme obtain an edge over the gambling den.
The reason for this is simple.
Low cards favor the casino in blackjack and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the croupier because they help them make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on his initial 2 cards).
In casino twenty-one, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.
The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favor the player because they might bust the casino when he hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Although blackjacks are, equally allocated between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she gets 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 croupier.
You only need to know when the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can increase your action when the odds are in your favour.
This is a simple explanation of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into why the logic works.
When wagering on vingt-et-un over an extended term card counting will help in changing the expectation in your favor by approx two percent.