Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

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If you like the thrill and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when wagering on vingt-et-un you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When playing blackjack there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when wagering on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been studying twenty-one all kinds of complex plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you wager on 21.

If when betting on 21 you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centered around a simple system of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not counting cards. It informs you when wagering on blackjack when you should take another card or stand.

It is very easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get no charge guides on the net

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

Counting cards getting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach obtain an edge over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the house in 21 and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on their first two cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the casino when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You just need to know when the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can jump your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When wagering on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the odds in your favour by approximately two percent.

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