Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

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If you like the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the house?

Basically when betting on twenty-one you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When playing blackjack there is statistically a best way to play every 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 boost your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when gambling on 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex card counting is pretty much very easy when you play Blackjack.

If when playing chemin de fer you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated plan of how you wager based upon the cards you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when gambling on twenty-one when you should hit or hold.

It’s very easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the internet

Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting tilting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the dealer in blackjack and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they help him make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his initial 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier cannot.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the dealer when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Though blackjacks are, evenly allocated 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 edge.

You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You only need to know when the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can boost your action when the expectation is in your favor.

This is a basic explanation of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.

When betting on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in changing the odds in your favor by to around two percent.