Playing 21 — to Win
If you love the thrill and excitement of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how can you beat the house?
Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe
When playing twenty-one there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your action size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.
You’re only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when wagering on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since professionals and academics have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the idea is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you bet on 21.
If when playing twenty-one you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around a basic system of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you should hit or hold.
It’s remarkably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get complimentary cards on the internet
Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.
Counting cards tilting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting system achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favour the house in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favor the croupier because they assist her make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her first 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the house can’t.
The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break them.
The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the house when she hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.
Though blackjacks are, equally divided between the casino and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You don’t have to add up the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.
You just need to know when the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can increase your bet when the odds are in your favour.
This is a simple commentary of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.
When betting on blackjack over the longer term card counting will assist in altering the expectation in your favour by approximately 2%.