Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you love the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.
So, how do you defeat the croupier?
Quite simply when betting on 21 you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could come from the shoe
When betting on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your action amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when they are not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when gambling on vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of complicated plans have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on twenty-one.
If when playing twenty-one you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favour.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around a basic plan of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when gambling on blackjack when you need to take another card or hold.
It is remarkably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the net
Using it when you gamble on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.
Counting cards getting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting approach achieve an advantage over the gambling den.
The reason for this is simple.
Low cards favour the croupier in 21 and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favour the dealer because they assist him make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).
In casino chemin de fer, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.
The house has no choice 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 loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust her.
The high cards favour the player because they might break the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Although blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the croupier and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You don’t have to add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.
You just need to know when the deck is rich or depleted in high cards and you can jump your wager when the expectation is in your favor.
This is a simple explanation of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.
When gambling on 21 over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.