Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

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If you like the blast and adventure of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing twenty-one you are observing the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the deck

When betting on 21 there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of complicated plans have been developed, including "card counting" but although the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when betting on 21 you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when betting on 21 when you need to hit or hold.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the net

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

Counting cards getting the odds in your favor

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

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the croupier in blackjack and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the house because they help him acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their 1st two cards).

In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house cannot.

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the player because they could bust the house when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When playing twenty-one over an extended time card counting will aid in shifting the odds in your favour by approx two percent.

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