Playing 21 — to Win
Posted in Blackjack on 04/07/2016 01:21 pm by Cristina
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 favour, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how do you beat the house?
Quite simply when betting on vingt-et-un you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe
When playing 21 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 anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.
You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when playing chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
fundamental strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and academics have been studying Blackjack all sorts of abstract systems have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is pretty much very easy when you bet on 21.
If when betting on 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favor.
Chemin de fer Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around a basic approach of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when betting on 21 when you should hit or hold.
It’s unbelievably easy to do and is before long committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the net
Using it when you gamble on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.
Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an edge over the casino.
The reason for this is simple.
Low cards favour the house in chemin de fer and high cards favor the player.
Low cards favor the casino because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on his 1st 2 cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.
She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favour the player because they may break the house when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Although blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.
You just need to know at what point the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can elevate your action when the expectation is in your favor.
This is a simple breakdown of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.
When betting on 21 over an extended time card counting will aid in altering the edge in your favour by approx 2%.