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If you love the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on 21 is for you.

So, how do you beat the casino?

Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your action size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

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

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying Blackjack all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when wagering on chemin de fer you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated system of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It tells you when gambling on chemin de fer when you need to take another card or stand.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can get no charge guides on the net

Using it when you play 21 will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Card counting getting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach obtain an edge over the casino.

The reason for this is easy.

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

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

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may bust the house when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You just need to know at what point the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can increase your action when the edge is in your favor.

This is a simple account of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.

When playing blackjack over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the odds in your favour by approx two percent.