If you like the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.
So, how do you beat the casino?
Basically when betting on twenty-one you are tracking the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe
When playing chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when wagering on vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you wager on Blackjack.
If when gambling on 21 you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favor.
Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around a basic approach of how you bet based upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when wagering on vingt-et-un when you should take another card or hold.
It is extremely easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find free guides on the internet
Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Counting cards getting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the gambling hall.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favour the house in chemin de fer and high cards favor the player.
Low cards favour the croupier because they help him make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on his first two cards).
In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.
The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break them.
The high cards favour the player because they might break the house when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Though blackjacks are, evenly dispersed 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 advantage.
You don’t have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You simply need to know when the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a simple account of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.
When betting on vingt-et-un over an extended term card counting will assist in shifting the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.