Playing Vingt-et-un — to Win
Posted in Blackjack on 12/29/2015 01:21 pm by Alex
If you like the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.
So, how can you defeat the house?
Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. What your hand is
2. What cards could come from the deck
When playing twenty-one 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 anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your action size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when they are not.
You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when gambling on twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.
Basic strategy and card counting
Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of complex systems have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you gamble on 21.
If when playing chemin de fer you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favor.
Blackjack Basic Strategy
Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when gambling on twenty-one when you should hit or hold.
It’s extremely simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides 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 shifting the expectation in your favor
Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme achieve an advantage over the gambling den.
The reasoning behind this is easy.
Low cards favour the casino in blackjack and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favor the croupier because they help him acquire winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on their first 2 cards).
In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.
She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust her.
The high cards favour the player because they may bust the house when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally distributed between the house and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.
You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.
You simply need to know at what point the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the edge is in your favour.
This is a basic explanation of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.
When gambling on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favor by approx 2%.