2007
04.27

Playing 21 — to Win

[ English | Deutsch | Español | Français | Italiano ]

If you love the blast and adventure of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing chemin de fer you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the deck

When enjoying chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when gambling on vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been investigating 21 all kinds of complex schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when playing 21 you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one basic strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around a uncomplicated system of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when playing blackjack when you need to hit or stand.

It’s surprisingly easy 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 odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system realize an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the croupier in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the house because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their first two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier can’t.

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favor the player because they may bust the house when he hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Though blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You just need to know at what point the deck is rich or depleted in high cards and you can boost your wager when the odds are in your favor.

This is a simple account of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.

When betting on blackjack over an extended time card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by approx 2 percent.