Playing 21 — to Win

If you like the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favor, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the house?

Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the deck

When playing twenty-one there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when wagering on chemin de fer you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of abstract systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you play 21.

If when wagering on twenty-one you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is assembled around a basic system of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when betting on twenty-one when you should hit or stand.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is before long memorized and until then you can find complimentary guides on the internet

Using it when you gamble on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Card counting shifting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an edge over the casino.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favour the house in twenty-one and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they assist him make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her first 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the casino when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the gambler 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 advantage over the casino.

You simply need to know at what point the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can increase your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When wagering on blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in altering the expectation in your favor by approx two percent.

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