If you love the blast and excitement of a great card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Basically when betting on 21 you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying 21 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 odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your action amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

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

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating Blackjack all sorts of complicated plans have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on 21.

If when wagering on chemin de fer you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around a basic system of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when playing twenty-one 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 find free cards on the internet

Using it when you gamble on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting tilting the edge in your favour

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

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the casino in 21 and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the croupier because they help him acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on their first 2 cards).

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

The dealer 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 rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

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

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

You do not have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

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

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

When gambling on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favour by approx 2%.