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

So, how can you defeat the house?

Basically when wagering on vingt-et-un you are studying the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When gambling on twenty-one there is mathematically a better 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 will be able to increase your wager size 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 bet on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favour.

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

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying Blackjack all kinds of complicated systems have been developed, including "card counting" but although the theory is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you play twenty-one.

If when betting on vingt-et-un you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated approach of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when gambling on 21 when you should take another card or stand.

It is very easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find free guides on the internet

Using it when you gamble on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting shifting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system obtain an advantage over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they aid her make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on her initial two cards).

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

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may break the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You only need to know when the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can boost your action when the edge is in your favour.

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

When playing chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will help in tilting the edge in your favour by approx two percent.