Playing 21 — to Win

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If you like the blast and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the casino?

Quite simply when playing chemin de fer you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on 21 there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your bet size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when playing blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been investigating 21 all kinds of abstract schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you play Blackjack.

If when betting on chemin de fer you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around a simple system of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when betting on 21 when you need to hit or hold.

It is unbelievably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the internet

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

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an edge over the gambling den.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the house because they aid them make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on his first two cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the house cannot.

The house has no decision 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 break her.

The high cards favour the player because they could break the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Though blackjacks are, equally distributed between the croupier and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You do not have to count the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

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

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

When gambling on 21 over an extended term card counting will help in changing the edge in your favour by approx two percent.