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Playing Twenty-one — to Win
If you like the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, playing chemin de fer is for you.
So, how can you beat the dealer?
Quite simply when betting on chemin de fer you are tracking the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards can come from the shoe
When betting on chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are 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 gamble on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when betting on blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
fundamental tactics and counting cards
Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you wager on Blackjack.
If when playing chemin de fer you card count properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favor.
Chemin de fer Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated system of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without card counting. It tells you when betting on 21 when you should take another card or stand.
It’s remarkably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the web
Using it when you play blackjack will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.
Counting cards shifting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling hall.
The reason for this is simple.
Low cards favor the house in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favor the croupier because they assist her acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on her first two cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.
He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favour the player because they may break the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.
Though blackjacks are, evenly divided between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You don’t have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.
You only need to know at what point the deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can boost your bet when the edge is in your favor.
This is a simple account of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.
When playing twenty-one over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.