Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, gambling on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the casino?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When betting on blackjack there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your wager size 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 wager on, so it is important that you adjust wager 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 succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complicated schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually very easy when you gamble on twenty-one.

If when wagering on chemin de fer you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated system of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on chemin de fer when you should hit or hold.

It’s remarkably simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the net

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

Card counting shifting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the gambling den.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the casino in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the house because they aid them make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break him.

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

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

You do not have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the house.

You simply need to know when the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can jump your wager when the edge is in your favor.

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

When betting on 21 over an extended time card counting will assist in tilting the edge in your favor by approx 2 percent.

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