Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
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Card countingMain article: Card counting
Card countingMain article: Card counting During the course of a blackjack shoe, the dealer progressively exposes cards which are dealt to his or her own and the players' hands. Careful accounting of the exposed cards allows a player to make inferences about the cards which remain to be dealt, and use these inferences in one of two ways: The online players can make larger bets when they have the advantage. For example, the online players can increase the starting bet if there are many aces and tems left in the deck, in the hope of hitting a blackjack The online players can deviate from basic strategy according to the composition of their undealt cards. For example, with many tems left in the deck, the online players may double down in more situations since there is a better chance of getting a good hand.
A typical card counting system
A typical card counting system assigns a point score to each rank of card (e.g., 1 point for 2–6, 0 points for 7–9 and -1 point for 10–A). Whenever a card is exposed, a counter adds the score of that card to a running total, the 'count'; the count is used to make betting and playing decisions according to a table which they have learned. The count starts at 0 for a freshly shuffled deck for "balanced" counting systems. Unbalanced counts are often started at a value which depends on the number of decks used in the game.