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If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing chemin de fer you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe

When gambling on twenty-one there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

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

fundamental tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is actually straightforward when you play 21.

If when playing chemin de fer you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It informs you when betting on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or stand.

It is remarkably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you gamble on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Card counting shifting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach obtain an edge over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the house because they aid them make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her first two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

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

The high cards favor the gambler because they could bust the house when he hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

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

You do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You just need to know when the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can boost your action when the odds are in your favor.

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

When playing 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favour by approximately 2%.