subject: Strategies for winning at blackjack [print this page] When you play blackjack, you can put all your chances of winning by using a simple and highly effective method. It is called basic strategy and strongly reduces the house advantage. In the rest of this article, we are going to explain this strategy in detail and show you all you need to know for winning.
A little chance
Why is the basic strategy so effective? Simply, because it is based on statistics and probability. Normally, if you play blackjack in a casino online or a land based one, you have roughly 49.5% chance of winning and 50.5% chance of losing. However, depending on how you act, you can change these percentages to go up to 49.9% to 50.1% or rather 49.3% to 50,7%.
Use the basic strategy
Thus, at blackjack, if you want to win your main objective should be to try and make your chances of winning to be as close as possible to 50%. To achieve this, there's only one solution: use the basic strategy. Learn it and use it at each of your games.
The tables of the basic strategy
You'll find below 3 tables presenting you the basic strategy in order to win at blackjack. They tell you which game option to choose (at centre) depending on your hand (lines) and the dealer's card (the columns). You can have three major types of hands. Thus, we have 3 tables for: the hard totals (no ace), soft totals (with as) and the pairs. Be attentive, with those tables, you can increase your probability to win at a blackjack game.
