If you like the blast and excitement of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how do you beat the casino?
Quite simply when betting on blackjack you are looking at the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards possibly could come from the deck
When enjoying chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.
You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favor.
To do this when gambling on 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you bet on 21.
If when playing blackjack you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the edge to your favor.
Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated plan of how you wager depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when betting on twenty-one when you should hit or stand.
It is very simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get free guides on the net
Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Card counting shifting the expectation in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an edge over the gambling den.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favor the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the house because they help him acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their initial 2 cards).
In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer cannot.
The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favour the gambler because they might break the croupier when he hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, equally divided between the casino and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the dealer.
You only need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can boost your action when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a simple explanation of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.
When playing twenty-one over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the edge in your favor by approximately 2 percent.