Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win
If you like the blast and adventure of a good card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how do you beat the dealer?
Basically when wagering on twenty-one you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe
When betting on blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.
You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when gambling on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and card counting
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you wager on 21.
If when betting on blackjack you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favour.
Chemin de fer Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around a basic system of how you wager depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when playing chemin de fer when you should hit or stand.
It is extremely simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the internet
Using it when you gamble on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Counting cards tilting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the gambling hall.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favor the house in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the dealer because they assist him make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on their initial 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.
The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.
The high cards favor the gambler because they might break the casino when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Though blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.
You do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.
You simply need to know at what point the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can up your bet when the expectation is in your favor.
This is a simple breakdown of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.
When playing vingt-et-un over an extended term card counting will assist in altering the expectation in your favour by approximately 2 percent.