If you like the blast and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.
So, how can you beat the house?
Basically when gambling on blackjack you are looking at the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe
When betting on chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances 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 decrease 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 bet size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when gambling on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since professionals and scientists have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complicated schemes have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex card counting is actually very easy when you gamble on twenty-one.
If when betting on chemin de fer you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favor.
21 Basic Strategy
21 basic strategy is assembled around a basic approach of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when betting on vingt-et-un when you should hit or stand.
It’s extremely easy to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can find free guides on the internet
Using it when you play twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.
Card counting shifting the edge in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme gain an edge over the gambling den.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favour the dealer in twenty-one and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the house because they aid her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his initial 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.
The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break him.
The high cards favor the player because they could break the croupier when he hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Though blackjacks are, evenly divided between the croupier and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.
You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the dealer.
You only need to know at what point the shoe is rich or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the edge is in your favor.
This is a basic breakdown of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.
When playing twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by approximately 2 percent.