Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

Quite simply when gambling on 21 you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When betting on vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when gambling on blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you gamble on 21.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around a simple system of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when betting on twenty-one when you need to hit or stand.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get complimentary guides on the net

Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Card counting getting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme gain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the house in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the casino because they aid them make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on their initial 2 cards).

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

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the house when he hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Though blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.

You don’t have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You only need to know at what point the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the odds are in your favor.

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

When playing chemin de fer over an extended term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.

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