Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

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If you like the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on 21 is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on chemin de fer you are tracking the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might come from the deck

When betting on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better 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 will be able to boost your wager amount when the odds are 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 wager size when the odds are in your favour.

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

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating 21 all sorts of complicated systems have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you gamble on 21.

If when wagering on 21 you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around a simple plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It tells you when wagering on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or hold.

It is extremely simple to do and is before long memorized and until then you can find free cards on the net

Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Counting cards getting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the house in chemin de fer and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the casino because they help him make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on her 1st 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the player because they may bust the casino when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You do not have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You only need to know at what point the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can up your wager when the edge is in your favor.

This is a basic explanation of why card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.

When playing blackjack over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the edge in your favour by to around 2%.