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If you like the thrill and excitement of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favor, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on twenty-one you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the deck

When playing 21 there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favor.

To do this when playing chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all sorts of abstract systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you play 21.

If when wagering on 21 you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around a simple approach of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when wagering on twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.

It is very easy to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can find free guides on the internet

Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting system gain an advantage over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the dealer in 21 and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist him make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their 1st two cards).

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

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

The high cards favor the player because they might bust the dealer when he hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.

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

This is a basic explanation of why card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into why the rationale works.

When playing chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will help in shifting the odds in your favor by approx 2%.