Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, playing chemin de fer is for you.
So, how do you beat the dealer?
Basically when playing twenty-one you are studying the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards might come from the deck
When playing blackjack there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.
You're 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 favor.
To do this when wagering on vingt-et-un you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
fundamental strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating 21 all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you play Blackjack.
If when wagering on vingt-et-un you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
21 basic strategy is centered around a basic system of how you bet based upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when betting on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or stand.
It is unbelievably simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the net
Using it when you play twenty-one will bring down the casino's odds advantage to near to even.
Card counting shifting the expectation in your favor
Card counting works and players use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the casino.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favour the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favour the dealer because they help him make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on their 1st two cards).
In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier cannot.
The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Though blackjacks are, equally allocated between the dealer 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 compute the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You just need to know at what point the deck is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your action when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a basic breakdown of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.
When betting on 21 over the longer term card counting will help in changing the edge in your favour by approximately two percent.
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