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Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you love the blast and excitement of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing chemin de fer you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When gambling on chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your action amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when playing vingt-et-un you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of complex plans have arisen, including "card counting" but although the idea is complex counting cards is pretty much very easy when you wager on 21.

If when playing 21 you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated system of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when gambling on twenty-one when you should take another card or stand.

It is remarkably easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you bet on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach gain an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the casino in blackjack and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the dealer because they aid them acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his 1st two cards).

In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the dealer when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

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

You don’t have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You simply need to know when the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can up your bet when the edge is in your favor.

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

When gambling on blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the odds in your favour by approximately two percent.

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