Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

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If you like the blast and excitement of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the house?

Basically when wagering on chemin de fer you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When wagering on chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favor.

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

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complex systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex card counting is pretty much straightforward when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when gambling on 21 you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a basic approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It tells you when betting on chemin de fer when you need to hit or stand.

It is very simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get complimentary guides on the net

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

Counting cards getting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the dealer in blackjack and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the croupier because they assist him acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.

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

The high cards favour the player because they might bust the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Although blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the house and the gambler, 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 count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You simply need to know at what point the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can jump your bet when the edge is in your favour.

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

When playing twenty-one over an extended time card counting will aid in changing the odds in your favor by to around 2 percent.