Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you love the blast and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, betting on 21 is for you.
So, how do you beat the casino?
Quite simply when betting on chemin de fer you are tracking the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards could be dealt from the shoe
When gambling on twenty-one there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your bet size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when betting on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
fundamental strategy and counting cards
Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complicated systems have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.
If when playing 21 you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favour.
21 Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated system of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when betting on twenty-one when you should hit or stand.
It’s unbelievably simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find free cards on the web
Using it when you gamble on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.
Card counting tilting the expectation in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme gain an edge over the casino.
The reasoning behind this is simple.
Low cards favour the house in 21 and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favour the dealer because they assist him make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her first 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino cannot.
She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust her.
The high cards favour the player because they might break the casino when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Although blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the casino.
You simply need to know when the deck is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can jump your bet when the edge is in your favor.
This is a basic breakdown of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.
When betting on 21 over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favour by to around two percent.
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