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Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

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If you love the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on 21 is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing chemin de fer you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe

When betting on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when playing chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of complex schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you gamble on chemin de fer.

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

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated approach of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when wagering on blackjack when you should hit or hold.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the web

Using it when you wager on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Counting cards getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favor the croupier in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they aid them acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the player because they might break the casino when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Although blackjacks are, evenly distributed between the croupier and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.

You do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the house.

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

This is a basic commentary of why card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.

When betting on vingt-et-un over an extended term card counting will aid in changing the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.