Playing 21 — to Win
If you love the blast and excitement of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how do you beat the croupier?
Basically when betting on vingt-et-un you are tracking the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe
When playing 21 there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your action amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.
You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when wagering on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
fundamental strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including "card counting" but although the theory is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you gamble on twenty-one.
If when wagering on twenty-one you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favour.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated system of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when wagering on vingt-et-un when you should hit or stand.
It is unbelievably simple to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find free guides on the web
Using it when you gamble on 21 will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an edge over the casino.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favour the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the croupier because they help him make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her initial 2 cards).
In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.
The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust them.
The high cards favour the gambler because they might break the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Although blackjacks are, equally allocated between the casino and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You do not have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.
You only need to know when the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your action when the edge is in your favor.
This is a basic breakdown of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.
When betting on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in altering the expectation in your favour by approximately 2 percent.