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

So, how can you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing blackjack you are looking at the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When playing twenty-one there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as 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 bet amount when the odds are in your favor and lower 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 wager size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when betting on twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complex systems have been developed, including "card counting" but although the idea is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you play Blackjack.

If when playing chemin de fer you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated approach of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when wagering on 21 when you should hit or hold.

It’s surprisingly simple to do and is before long committed to memory and until then you can find complimentary guides on the web

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

Card counting shifting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an edge over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the house in blackjack and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the casino because they help her acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their first two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

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 flush the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the player because they could bust the casino when he hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Although blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the dealer 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 don’t have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You simply need to know when the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the edge is in your favor.

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

When betting on 21 over the longer term card counting will help in altering the expectation in your favor by to around two percent.