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PostHeaderIcon Tricks at a Live Casino Blackjack Table

Research and experience has shown that blackjack, contrary to popular belief, can in fact be beaten. If you are proficient in some basic skills, this will easily decrease the house edge by approximately 5 percent. However, to go further in the game, you will have to use a strategy known as card counting. This in turn is divided into two sub strategies. There is a level one or the introductory level of card counting, which involves only focusing on the ten cards and aces, while disregarding the others. Here the emphasis lies on increasing your winning percentage, while keeping the card counting system free of any complications.

The advanced level of card counting is for those who are willing to spend a considerable amount of their time figuring out numbers. For this, you need to have a certain level of aptitude in math, particularly with real natural numbers. Moreover, you also need to possess a lot of dedication for working long hours and unveil what is similar to a mystery. In order to do this effectively and in the least possible time, you could learn a few tricks and strategies. Keep in mind that these will not ensure victory.

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One of the most popular games in the casino is Blackjack. This game is a highly intellectual game that requires a lot of intelligence, practice and research to master. Players have to learn the basic blackjack strategies and the rules while starting off with the game. Every player playing blackjack must have a strategy as the strategy is the only weapon in this game. Basic strategy for blackjack is the important knowledge that includes the sets of rules as well the know how of reading blackjack strategy chart. The game basically depends on knowing how to play the soft and the hard hands.

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PostHeaderIcon To Quit Or Not To Quit, That Is The Question

For a most of casino games including Blackjack, there are always strategies by which one can play and more often win the game. It is very important, however, before learning such strategies, that we understand the basic rules of the game.

The basic aim of Blackjack is to beat the dealer and this can be done in two ways: either by beating the dealer’s hand; or letting the dealer’s hand go ‘bust’. To beat the dealer’s hand you should have a total value of cards equal to or less than 21, but still higher than the dealer. If your hand exceeds 21, you are considered ‘bust’. So similarly to by the second technique, to have the dealer’s hand go ‘bust’, his value should exceed 21 whilst yours is still within it. Also, in a game like blackjack, the suit of the card doesn’t matter, only its value.

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PostHeaderIcon Blackjack Basic Strategy

One of the most popular card games of all time, Blackjack is the most sought after game in most casinos and online websites as it offers the enviable combination of both skill and luck in order to master the game. Hence this game has attracted gamblers and mathematicians alike for a long time now. Blackjack has stood the test of time for the simple reason that no matter how much you play the game you can never quite master it. Hence this game does not solely depend on the player’s luck or just his skills. A player has to get both of them correct or compensate for the lack of one with the abundance of the other in order to win. This is what makes blackjack the most popular card game in the 21st century.

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