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Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you like the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when gambling on 21 you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When playing vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when playing vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complicated systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you bet on twenty-one.

If when betting on blackjack you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around a basic plan of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It tells you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or stand.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can get no charge guides on the web

Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Card counting shifting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the croupier in blackjack and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they aid him make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on their first 2 cards).

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

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favor the player because they may break the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

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

You do not have to compute 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 at what point the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can up your action when the edge is in your favour.

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

When playing 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in altering the odds in your favor by approximately 2 percent.

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