Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
Sunday, 18. September 2022
If you love the fulfillment and excitement of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on Blackjack is for you.
So, how do you defeat the casino?
Basically when playing chemin de fer you are watching the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards might come from the shoe
When wagering on chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play every 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 action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You are only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favor.
To do this when betting on 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic tactics and counting cards
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complicated schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but although the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you bet on Blackjack.
If when playing chemin de fer you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favour.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around a simple plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It informs you when betting on vingt-et-un when you should take another card or stand.
It is unbelievably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the internet
Using it when you play blackjack will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.
Counting cards tilting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting approach obtain an edge over the casino.
The reasoning behind this is simple.
Low cards favour the croupier in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.
Low cards favour the croupier because they assist him make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her initial 2 cards).
In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier cannot.
The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.
The high cards favour the gambler because they might break the dealer when he hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.
Although blackjacks are, equally allocated between the casino and the player, 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 compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.
You just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can up your bet when the edge is in your favour.
This is a simple explanation of why card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.
When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the expectation in your favour by approx 2 percent.
Posted in Blackjack by Claire
