Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on Blackjack is for you.
So, how can you defeat the casino?
Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are observing the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards could come from the shoe
When playing 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 determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your wager size when the edge is 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 bet size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when playing 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since professionals and academics have been studying twenty-one all sorts of complex systems have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you play 21.
If when playing twenty-one you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favour.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated plan of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when wagering on 21 when you need to take another card or stand.
It’s very simple to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get free guides on the web
Using it when you gamble on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Card counting getting the expectation in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the casino.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favour the casino in twenty-one and high cards favour the player.
Low cards favor the dealer because they assist him acquire winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their initial 2 cards).
In casino twenty-one, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the house can’t.
She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.
The high cards favor the gambler because they might break the casino when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Although blackjacks are, equally distributed between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the house.
You just need to know when the deck is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can up your wager when the odds are in your favor.
This is a basic account of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.
When playing chemin de fer over an extended term card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favor by approximately 2 percent.
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