Playing 21 — to Win

If you like the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on 21 is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on twenty-one you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe

When playing chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

To do this when playing vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been studying 21 all kinds of complicated schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is actually straightforward when you play 21.

If when playing 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated system of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when betting on blackjack when you should hit or stand.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find no charge guides on the net

Using it when you play chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme gain an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favor the dealer because they help him make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on his 1st two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the house can’t.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favor the gambler because they might bust the casino when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.

You don’t have to add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or poor in high cards and you can jump your action when the edge is in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over an extended time card counting will aid in changing the edge in your favour by approx 2%.

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