Playing Twenty-one — to Win


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If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when playing vingt-et-un you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on twenty-one there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to increase your action size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when wagering on vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of abstract plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you bet on 21.

If when playing chemin de fer you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when playing 21 when you need to hit or stand.

It is very simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find free guides on the internet

Using it when you bet on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favor the dealer in twenty-one and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the casino because they help them acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on her initial two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, 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 advantage. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favor the player because they could bust the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You only need to know at what point the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can boost your bet when the edge is in your favor.

This is a basic commentary of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.

When gambling on 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.

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