A Good Strategy For Winning At Live Blackjack

By Author: Paul Jones
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Although every casino, whether ‘real’ or online has an advantage over the player – otherwise there would be no casinos; every business needs to make a profit to survive – it is nevertheless true that in the case of blackjack, the edge is very small and in fact it is very possible to walk away with reasonable winnings on a regular basis. There are various different house rules in blackjack and before choosing your live casino site and beginning play you need to make sure whether the dealer stands on seventeens or hits on soft seventeens; this obviously can make a difference on how you bet, but it isn’t a choice for the dealer; whatever the house plays applies on every game.
Blackjack is a very simple game and almost everyone will have played a version of it. Essentially it involves getting to twenty one but not exceeding it. Within that there are hands which are better than others – for example the perfect blackjack of two cards – and rules such as the seventeen options above, but other than that you can play from scratch after only watching a few games, it really is that simple. Betting is simple as well ...
... with only a few options for buying cards or splitting hands; you can play a very satisfying game by just going for the basic option every time.
Where the strategy comes in is learning how to count the cards. This is often portrayed in fiction as being a very bad thing, likely to get you thrown out of casinos by large men in suits but in fact card counting in blackjack is perfectly legitimate and is really the only sensible way to play. Since winning or losing depends on whether your next card will be high or low it is only common sense to keep a bit of a tally on which it is likely to be. Live blackjack is much better in this respect than playing against a random number generator as you can at least be certain that the cards in the shoe are genuine packs, so card counting becomes a real winning strategy – hopefully.
You don’t have to be some genius with numbers to count cards and make a difference to your winnings. Just keeping tabs on how many high cards or low have come across the baize so far will give you an edge – always remembering of course that aces can be high or low, so try and remember them separately. This won’t give you guaranteed returns of course because there is still a huge element of luck involved, but it might help you decide whether to stick or not. As the cards are random, even if there are only two left and you know one is a king and one an ace – an unlikely degree of accuracy for even an accomplished player of live blackjack – you still won’t know which one you’ll get. That’s what makes it a game of chance and where the fun comes in!