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If you like the blast and excitement of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

Quite simply when playing blackjack you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on twenty-one there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are 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 favour.

To do this when playing 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of complicated plans have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex card counting is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on chemin de fer.

If when playing 21 you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centered around a simple plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when betting on chemin de fer when you should hit or hold.

It is extremely easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get no charge guides on the net

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

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach obtain an advantage over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the house because they help him acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his 1st 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer cannot.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may break the casino when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You just need to know when the shoe is flush or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the odds are in your favour.

This is a simple commentary of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.

When gambling on blackjack over an extended time card counting will help in tilting the odds in your favour by approximately 2%.