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If you like the thrill and excitement of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the casino?

Basically when playing chemin de fer you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might come from the shoe

When gambling on chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when playing twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental strategy and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you play chemin de fer.

If when betting on 21 you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated system of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when gambling on twenty-one when you should hit or stand.

It is very simple to do and is before long committed to memory and until then you can get complimentary guides on the internet

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

Card counting shifting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the croupier in chemin de fer and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the house because they assist them acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on his first 2 cards).

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

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the player because they might bust the dealer when he hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.

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

You simply need to know when the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can jump your action when the odds are in your favor.

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

When playing vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in altering the expectation in your favor by approximately two percent.