Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win

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If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the excitement of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing twenty-one you are tracking the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck

When wagering on 21 there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your action size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

You are only going to succeed at 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 playing twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of abstract schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you wager on 21.

If when playing 21 you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated plan of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when betting on chemin de fer when you should hit or stand.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the net

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

Card counting getting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system realize an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the house in 21 and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they assist them acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino cannot.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the player because they might bust the dealer when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Though blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You just need to know when the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can boost your bet when the odds are in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over an extended time card counting will help in altering the expectation in your favour by approximately 2 percent.