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Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you love the fulfillment and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, betting on 21 is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Basically when betting on vingt-et-un you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards can come from the deck

When gambling on 21 there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when wagering on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you bet on 21.

If when playing twenty-one you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around a basic system of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when playing 21 when you should take another card or hold.

It’s remarkably easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find no charge guides on the web

Using it when you wager on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Card counting getting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme gain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favour the house in chemin de fer and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they aid him acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 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.

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favor the gambler because they might bust the casino when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You only need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or poor in high cards and you can boost your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When gambling on 21 over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the expectation in your favor by approximately 2 percent.

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