Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you love the fulfillment and excitement of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when playing twenty-one you are studying the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the shoe

When wagering on blackjack there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your action amount 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 wager on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favor.

To do this when playing twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including "card counting" but although the theory is complex card counting is all in all straightforward when you wager on 21.

If when playing vingt-et-un you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is assembled around a simple approach of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when playing chemin de fer when you should hit or stand.

It is unbelievably easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find free guides on the web

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

Counting cards getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the dealer because they help him make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her initial two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier cannot.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may break the house when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Although blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You just need to know when the shoe is loaded or poor in high cards and you can up your action when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When betting on blackjack over an extended term card counting will help in changing the odds in your favour by approx 2%.

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