Playing Twenty-one — to Win
Thursday, 16. March 2023
If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a good card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how can you beat the croupier?
Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards should come from the deck
When gambling on chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are 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 risks are in your favor.
To do this when playing vingt-et-un you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since professionals and scientists have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complicated plans have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is actually straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.
If when wagering on vingt-et-un you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favor.
Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy
21 basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated plan of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you should take another card or hold.
It’s extremely easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find no charge guides on the web
Using it when you bet on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.
Counting cards shifting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme obtain an edge over the casino.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favour the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favour the player.
Low cards favour the casino because they aid them make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their first 2 cards).
In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer cannot.
The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break them.
The high cards favor the player because they could bust the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Though blackjacks are, equally distributed between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You don’t have to add up the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.
You just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your action when the edge is in your favour.
This is a basic commentary of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.
When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will help in changing the odds in your favour by to around two percent.
Posted in Blackjack by Clark