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Playing 21 — to Win

If you like the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Basically when playing vingt-et-un you are watching the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck

When wagering on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

You’re 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 gambling on chemin de fer you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of complicated plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is actually straightforward when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when betting on twenty-one you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around a simple system of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when betting on chemin de fer when you need to hit or stand.

It is remarkably simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the internet

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

Card counting tilting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan gain an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the croupier in 21 and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they aid him acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on their first two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier cannot.

He 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 shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may break the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

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

You don’t have to count 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 up your wager when the edge is in your favor.

This is a simple account of why card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.

When wagering on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by to around 2%.

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