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Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when gambling on blackjack you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should come from the shoe

When playing vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play each 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 boost your action size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when wagering on 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on 21.

If when gambling on 21 you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when gambling on 21 when you need to hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is before long committed to memory and until then you can get no charge guides on the net

Using it when you wager on 21 will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting shifting the edge in your favour

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

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the dealer because they help him make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her 1st 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house cannot.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favor the player because they may break the house when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You just need to know when the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can jump your bet when the odds are in your favour.

This is a simple breakdown of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into why the logic works.

When playing twenty-one over an extended term card counting will aid in shifting the edge in your favour by to around 2 percent.