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Playing 21 — to Win
If you like the fulfillment and adventure of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, gambling on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how can you defeat the croupier?
Quite simply when playing twenty-one you are studying the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe
When enjoying blackjack there is statistically a best 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 coming out of the deck, then you can increase your action size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You’re only going to win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when gambling on twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all sorts of complicated plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you gamble on Blackjack.
If when wagering on chemin de fer you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around a basic approach of how you wager depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when playing blackjack when you need to take another card or hold.
It is remarkably simple to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find no charge cards on the net
Using it when you gamble on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.
Card counting tilting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting plan obtain an advantage over the casino.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favor the casino in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favor the dealer because they assist her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his initial two cards).
In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.
The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.
The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You don’t have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You just need to know when the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can up your bet when the edge is in your favor.
This is a simple account of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When wagering on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the edge in your favour by approximately 2%.