Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win

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If you love the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Basically when playing chemin de fer you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When playing vingt-et-un there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your action amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favor.

To do this when playing twenty-one you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of abstract schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you play 21.

If when wagering on 21 you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favor.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a simple system of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when betting on chemin de fer when you need to hit or hold.

It is very easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find complimentary guides on the internet

Using it when you play blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an edge over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the house because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on her first 2 cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may break the casino when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, equally distributed between the casino 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 don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You only need to know when the deck is rich or poor in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the edge is in your favour.

This is a basic explanation of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.

When gambling on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the edge in your favour by approx two percent.