If you love the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.
So, how can you defeat the house?
Basically when betting on blackjack you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck
When betting on twenty-one there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your action size 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 play, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.
To do this when wagering on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and academics have been studying Blackjack all kinds of complex schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you bet on chemin de fer.
If when gambling on twenty-one you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around a basic plan of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when wagering on twenty-one when you need to hit or stand.
It is very easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free cards on the net
Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor
Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an edge over the casino.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favor the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the croupier because they aid them make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her first two cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.
She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break them.
The high cards favour the player because they might bust the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.
Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally divided between the casino and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.
You don’t have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.
You just need to know at what point the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can increase your bet when the expectation is in your favor.
This is a simple account of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When betting on chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favour by to around 2 percent.