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Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you like the thrill and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on chemin de fer 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 calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when betting on 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of abstract systems have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the idea is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you gamble on chemin de fer.

If when betting on blackjack you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when wagering on blackjack when you need to hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the web

Using it when you play twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting tilting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the dealer in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they help her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on her first 2 cards).

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

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the casino when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Though blackjacks are, equally allocated between the croupier and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.

You don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

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

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

When wagering on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by approx 2 percent.

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