Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win
If you like the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, betting on 21 is for you.
So, how do you beat the croupier?
Basically when betting on vingt-et-un you are watching the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards might come from the shoe
When enjoying chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your action amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.
You’re only going to win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favor.
To do this when playing blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since professionals and academics have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complex systems have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is actually straightforward when you bet on chemin de fer.
If when betting on chemin de fer you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around a basic system of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when betting on 21 when you should hit or hold.
It is very simple to do and is before long memorized and until then you can get no charge guides on the internet
Using it when you play twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Counting cards getting the expectation in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an edge over the gambling hall.
The reason for this is simple.
Low cards favor the croupier in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the croupier because they help them make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.
She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.
The high cards favour the player because they might bust the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.
You just need to know when the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can up your action when the edge is in your favour.
This is a simple breakdown of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.
When playing vingt-et-un over an extended term card counting will help in tilting the edge in your favour by approximately 2%.