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Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you love the blast and adventure of a great card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Quite simply when wagering on blackjack you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When playing vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when betting on twenty-one you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complex card counting is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on 21.

If when playing vingt-et-un you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favor.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is assembled around a basic system of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when playing blackjack when you should take another card or stand.

It’s surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get no charge guides on the internet

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

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan gain an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favor the dealer in 21 and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the casino because they aid him make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on his initial two cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can hold 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 playing blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the player because they may bust the house when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

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

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

When playing 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the edge in your favor by approx 2%.

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