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Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win
If you love the fulfillment and excitement of a good card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how do you defeat the house?
Quite simply when gambling on chemin de fer you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could come from the shoe
When playing vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.
You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when betting on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including "card counting" but although the theory is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you play twenty-one.
If when playing chemin de fer you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.
Chemin de fer Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated system of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when betting on twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.
It’s remarkably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the internet
Using it when you bet on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Counting cards shifting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme gain an advantage over the gambling den.
The reasoning behind this is simple.
Low cards favor the croupier in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the dealer because they assist her make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).
In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.
The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favor the player because they may break the casino when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Although blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You do not have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.
You only need to know when the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can jump your wager when the odds are in your favour.
This is a basic breakdown of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.
When wagering on 21 over the longer term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favor by approximately two percent.