If you like the blast and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on 21 is for you.
So, how do you beat the house?
Basically when gambling on chemin de fer you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe
When betting on blackjack there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is called 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 boost your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.
You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when gambling on chemin de fer you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since professionals and academics have been investigating Blackjack all sorts of complicated schemes have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complex counting cards is all in all straightforward when you wager on Blackjack.
If when playing 21 you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around a basic system of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when playing 21 when you need to hit or stand.
It is remarkably easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the internet
Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.
Card counting shifting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an edge over the gambling hall.
The reasoning behind this is simple.
Low cards favor the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the dealer because they aid them make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their first 2 cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino cannot.
The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Although blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You don’t have to add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You just need to know at what point the shoe is flush or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your action when the edge is in your favour.
This is a simple explanation of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.
When playing blackjack over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the expectation in your favour by approx two percent.