Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win
If you love the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on 21 is for you.
So, how can you defeat the house?
Basically when wagering on vingt-et-un you are looking at the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards should come from the shoe
When betting on chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your bet size 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 play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when playing twenty-one you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complex card counting is all in all straightforward when you play chemin de fer.
If when betting on 21 you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favor.
21 Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It tells you when playing twenty-one when you should take another card or stand.
It’s unbelievably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free guides on the web
Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.
Counting cards getting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an edge over the gambling den.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favor the house in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favour the croupier because they aid him acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on their first 2 cards).
In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier can’t.
The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favor the player because they may break the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Although blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the casino and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.
You do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.
You just need to know when the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the odds are in your favour.
This is a basic breakdown of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.
When wagering on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in altering the expectation in your favor by approx two percent.