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If you like the blast and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the croupier?

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

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When enjoying blackjack there is statistically a best 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 being dealt from the deck, then you are able to increase your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

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

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of abstract plans have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you play Blackjack.

If when betting on twenty-one you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or stand.

It is very easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can get no charge guides on the internet

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

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme gain an edge over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the croupier in 21 and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the casino because they help him make 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 twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier cannot.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the casino when he hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You just need to know at what point the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can up your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When playing blackjack over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the odds in your favor by to around 2%.