Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you like the blast and excitement of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on Blackjack is for you.
So, how do you defeat the dealer?
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 be dealt from the shoe
When playing chemin de fer 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 calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when gambling on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying 21 all kinds of complex plans have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you play Blackjack.
If when betting on vingt-et-un you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favor.
Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you need to take another card or hold.
It’s remarkably easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get free guides on the web
Using it when you bet on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.
Card counting tilting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and players use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the casino.
The reason for this is easy.
Low cards favor the house in twenty-one and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favour the dealer because they assist her acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her 1st 2 cards).
In casino twenty-one, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the house can’t.
The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.
The high cards favour the player because they could break the dealer when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Though blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the croupier.
You just need to know at what point the deck is rich or poor in high cards and you can jump your wager when the edge is in your favour.
This is a simple commentary of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into why the logic works.
When gambling on 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the edge in your favour by approx two percent.