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If you love the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, gambling on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the casino?

Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are looking at the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might come from the shoe

When gambling on vingt-et-un 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 chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your action size when the odds are in your favor and lower 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 wager size when the odds are in your favor.

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying 21 all sorts of complicated systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on 21.

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

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a basic plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when playing blackjack when you should hit or hold.

It’s very simple to do and is before long memorized and up until then you can get complimentary guides on the web

Using it when you bet on 21 will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Counting cards shifting the edge in your favour

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

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favour the casino in 21 and high cards favour the player.

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

In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier cannot.

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may break the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, evenly 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 gambler has an edge.

You do not have to add up the data 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 depleted in high cards and you can boost your bet when the edge is in your favour.

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

When betting on blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favour by to around 2%.