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Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

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

So, how do you beat the casino?

Basically when wagering on twenty-one you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could come from the deck

When betting on twenty-one there is mathematically a best way to play each 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 boost your action size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favor.

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 academics have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of complex systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you play Blackjack.

If when betting on blackjack you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the edge to your favor.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around a basic system of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when betting on chemin de fer when you should take another card or hold.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can get free cards on the web

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

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the house because they assist them make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on their first 2 cards).

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

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the player because they could break the dealer when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You simply need to know when the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can boost your action when the edge is in your favour.

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

When playing blackjack over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the odds in your favour by approximately two percent.

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