Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you like the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on 21 is for you.
So, how do you beat the croupier?
Basically when betting on twenty-one you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards might come from the shoe
When playing vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when playing twenty-one you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
fundamental strategy and counting cards
Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating 21 all kinds of complicated plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you wager on chemin de fer.
If when playing 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the edge to your favour.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated system of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when wagering on chemin de fer when you should hit or hold.
It’s extremely easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free cards on the web
Using it when you bet on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.
Card counting shifting the expectation in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an edge over the gambling den.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favour the croupier in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favour the house because they help her acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on her 1st two cards).
In casino chemin de fer, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.
The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favor the gambler because they might bust the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the croupier and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You don’t have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.
You just need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the edge is in your favor.
This is a basic commentary of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.
When betting on vingt-et-un over an extended term card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favour by to around 2%.
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