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If you like the blast and adventure of a great card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when playing twenty-one you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on twenty-one there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

To do this when wagering on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of complicated plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you wager on chemin de fer.

If when gambling on blackjack you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated approach of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when wagering on blackjack when you should take another card or stand.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the net

Using it when you play chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards getting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme obtain an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they help them make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her first two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

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

The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the house when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the casino and the player, 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 just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can boost your action when the odds are in your favour.

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

When gambling on 21 over an extended term card counting will aid in shifting the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.