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Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win

If you like the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you defeat the house?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could come from the deck

When enjoying chemin de fer 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 being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when they are not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when playing 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complicated plans have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when playing chemin de fer you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around a basic plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the best hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when betting on twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find free guides on the net

Using it when you wager on 21 will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting tilting 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 simple.

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

Low cards favor the casino because they aid her acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her initial two cards).

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

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break him.

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

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

You don’t have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You only need to know at what point the shoe is rich or poor in high cards and you can increase your bet when the edge is in your favour.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the odds in your favor by to around 2%.

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