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Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win
If you like the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.
So, how can you defeat the dealer?
Quite simply when betting on vingt-et-un you are observing the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could be dealt from the shoe
When playing chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.
You are 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 twenty-one you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
fundamental strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complex systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is all in all straightforward when you bet on Blackjack.
If when betting on chemin de fer you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favor.
21 Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around a basic approach of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when playing vingt-et-un when you should take another card or hold.
It’s extremely simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the internet
Using it when you play blackjack will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.
Card counting shifting the expectation in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting plan gain an edge over the gambling den.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favour the croupier in chemin de fer and high cards favour the player.
Low cards favour the dealer because they assist her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her 1st 2 cards).
In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier cannot.
She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favor the gambler because they could break the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Though blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the house and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.
You don’t have to compute the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You just need to know at what point the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can up your bet when the odds are in your favor.
This is a basic commentary of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.
When playing twenty-one over an extended time card counting will aid in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.