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Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you love the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when gambling on twenty-one you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When playing 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 coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when betting on blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you wager on 21.

If when wagering on chemin de fer you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated system of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on twenty-one when you need to hit or stand.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the net

Using it when you play chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme achieve an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the casino in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they help him acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on their 1st two cards).

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

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

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

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

You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You only need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can jump your action when the odds are in your favor.

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

When wagering on 21 over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the edge in your favour by approx 2 percent.

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