Blackjack Tricks

Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

by Lawrence on Sep.03, 2015, under Blackjack

[ English ]

If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you defeat the house?

Basically when wagering on 21 you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should come from the deck

When wagering on chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when wagering on blackjack you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying twenty-one all sorts of abstract plans have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you gamble on twenty-one.

If when playing vingt-et-un you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the edge to your favor.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when playing 21 when you need to take another card or stand.

It is very easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get no charge guides on the net

Using it when you gamble on blackjack will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favour the house in twenty-one and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the house because they aid him acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on his 1st 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favor the player because they could bust the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally allocated between the casino and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You simply need to know at what point the deck is rich or depleted in high cards and you can boost your bet when the odds are in your favour.

This is a basic commentary of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the expectation in your favor by approx 2 percent.


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