05.09
Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you like the blast and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on twenty-one is for you.
So, how do you defeat the casino?
Basically when gambling on twenty-one you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards could come from the shoe
When betting on 21 there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.
You’re 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 wagering on vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic tactics and card counting
Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of complex schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you wager on chemin de fer.
If when wagering on vingt-et-un you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favor.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated system of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when betting on 21 when you should hit or stand.
It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find no charge guides on the web
Using it when you bet on blackjack will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach obtain an advantage over the gambling den.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favor the croupier in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the house because they help her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on his initial two cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.
The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Though blackjacks are, equally divided between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.
You don’t have to count the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.
You just need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your action when the expectation is in your favour.
This is a basic account of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.
When betting on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the edge in your favor by approx two percent.