Playing 21 — to Win
If you love the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how can you beat the dealer?
Quite simply when playing twenty-one you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe
When betting on blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is called 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 wager amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds 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 risks are in your favor.
To do this when betting on 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since mathematicians and academics have been studying twenty-one all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you bet on Blackjack.
If when wagering on twenty-one you count cards properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favour.
Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around a basic approach of how you wager depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when playing 21 when you need to hit or stand.
It’s very simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find free cards on the internet
Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.
Card counting getting the odds in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan gain an edge over the gambling hall.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favor the croupier in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the croupier because they help him make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her 1st two cards).
In casino blackjack, 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 playing vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favor the player because they may break the casino when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, evenly divided 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 edge.
You don’t have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.
You only need to know when the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can up your bet when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a simple commentary of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.
When wagering on blackjack over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.
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