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If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when gambling on blackjack you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might be dealt from the deck

When betting on chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your wager 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 gamble on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when betting on chemin de fer you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying Blackjack all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complex card counting is actually very easy when you play 21.

If when gambling on blackjack you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated approach of how you wager based upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when wagering on vingt-et-un when you need to take another card or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get no charge guides on the internet

Using it when you gamble on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the croupier because they help them acquire winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his 1st two cards).

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

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

The high cards favor the player because they might bust the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Though blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the house and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the gambler 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 casino.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can increase your action when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When betting on blackjack over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the edge in your favor by approx 2%.