Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you love the fulfillment and excitement of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how can you beat the house?
Quite simply when wagering on 21 you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards might be dealt from the deck
When wagering on 21 there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when betting on twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and card counting
Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of complicated systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you wager on twenty-one.
If when wagering on twenty-one you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favor.
21 Basic Strategy
Blackjack basic strategy is assembled around a basic plan of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when betting on 21 when you should take another card or stand.
It’s extremely easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find free guides on the web
Using it when you gamble on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.
Card counting getting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and players use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the gambling den.
The reason for this is simple.
Low cards favour the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the player.
Low cards favor the casino because they help her make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on her initial two cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier cannot.
The dealer 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 rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.
The high cards favor the player because they could break the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Though blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the croupier 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 count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.
You only need to know at what point the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can increase your action when the odds are in your favour.
This is a basic explanation of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When betting on 21 over an extended term card counting will assist in altering the edge in your favor by approx 2 percent.