Playing Chemin de fer — to Win


If you love the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Basically when playing twenty-one you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could be dealt from the shoe

When betting on chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

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

To do this when playing 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying twenty-one all kinds of complicated schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually very easy when you bet on 21.

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

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around a basic plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when betting on chemin de fer when you need to take another card or stand.

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

Using it when you wager on 21 will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting system achieve an edge over the gambling den.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favour the house in blackjack and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist her make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her first 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favor the gambler because they could bust the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Though blackjacks are, equally divided between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.

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

You simply need to know when the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can up your bet when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When playing chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the expectation in your favor by approximately 2 percent.

  1. No comments yet.

You must be logged in to post a comment.