One of the most popular casino games is the card game Blackjack, which is also known around the world as Twenty-one and Pontoon since first being invented in France around the early 1700s.
They say that playing cards is a game of chance, luck of the draw. This may be true to some extent but blackjack is a game where you can take away the casinos edge and make it almost a level playing field, in some cases you can even make the odds in your favor.
How to beat the casino playing blackjack revolves around maths. An MIT blackjack team made a fortune counting cards during the 1990s before they were barred.
Obviously, we aren’t all that good, but we can still give ourselves a fighting chance at beating the casino if the cards fall right by playing what is called Basic Strategy.
Did you know that by incorporating Basic Strategy in your Blackjack play would take away the casinos edge to less than 1%
Basic Strategy is all about making the optimal play for any blackjack situation. The “right play” over the course of millions of hands will come out ahead of the “hunch”, “gut feeling” play.
For example; you’re sitting at the blackjack table on 12 against the dealers 3.
You have just watched all those small cards come out and you just know there is one more small one to come, giving the dealer a 7-8 or 9 total before that 10 gives him a score to beat you sitting on 12.
The right play is to wave your hand and sit on your 12. Despite your gut feel or hunch.
The odds are in your favour to sit on 12 against the dealers 3. It may only be marginal but they are in your favour. Over the long haul you will win more hands than you lose by sitting on 12 against the dealers 3.
It’s no different than if you did something silly like split 10s against a dealers 6.
Sure, you may double up on your winnings this time, but over the long haul, splitting your winning hand into two losing hands will cost you more than your going to win.

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