02.20
Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
If you like the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how do you beat the casino?
Quite simply when betting on twenty-one you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards could come from the deck
When gambling on chemin de fer there is mathematically a best 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 can increase your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.
You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when wagering on 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of abstract plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is all in all very easy when you play twenty-one.
If when wagering on chemin de fer you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when betting on chemin de fer when you should hit or stand.
It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the internet
Using it when you bet on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.
Counting cards tilting the odds in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme achieve an edge over the gambling hall.
The reason this is simple.
Low cards favor the dealer in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.
Low cards favor the dealer because they assist him make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on her initial 2 cards).
In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier cannot.
The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.
The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.
Though blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the house and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.
You do not have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.
You just need to know when the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the expectation is in your favor.
This is a basic explanation of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the edge in your favour by approximately 2%.