Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you like the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on Blackjack is for you.
So, how can you beat the house?
Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe
When betting on 21 there is mathematically 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 coming out of the deck, then you can increase your action size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when betting on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying twenty-one all sorts of complex plans have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex card counting is actually very easy when you bet on Blackjack.
If when wagering on chemin de fer you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favour.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around a basic plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play without card counting. It informs you when betting on chemin de fer when you need to hit or stand.
It’s surprisingly simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find complimentary cards on the internet
Using it when you bet on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Card counting shifting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting system achieve an edge over the casino.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favour the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favour the casino because they assist them make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on his first 2 cards).
In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.
The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break them.
The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Although blackjacks are, equally divided between the casino and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.
You just need to know when the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can boost your wager when the odds are in your favour.
This is a basic breakdown of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.
When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favour by approx 2%.
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