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Playing 21 — to Win

If you love the thrill and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the house?

Basically when wagering on chemin de fer you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should come from the deck

When playing twenty-one there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your action size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when playing chemin de fer you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of abstract systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when wagering on blackjack you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated system of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s remarkably simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find complimentary cards on the net

Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Card counting getting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the dealer in 21 and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist them make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on his initial 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favor the player because they may break the house when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Though blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the croupier 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 count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You only need to know at what point the deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can boost your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

This is a simple explanation of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.

When playing twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in changing the expectation in your favour by to around 2%.

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