If you like the blast and excitement of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how can you beat the house?
Quite simply when wagering on blackjack you are studying the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards could come from the shoe
When enjoying twenty-one there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your action amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is 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 odds are in your favor.
To do this when betting on twenty-one you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since professionals and academics have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of abstract schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you bet on Blackjack.
If when playing twenty-one you count cards properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favor.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around a simple approach of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to play without card counting. It informs you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you should take another card or stand.
It is surprisingly simple to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find free guides on the net
Using it when you play chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Counting cards tilting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the gambling den.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favour the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.
Low cards favour the casino because they assist them acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on her 1st 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino cannot.
The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.
The high cards favor the player because they could break the casino when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You simply need to know at what point the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can up your wager when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a simple account of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.
When betting on blackjack over an extended time card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.