If you love the fulfillment and excitement of a great card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the house?

Quite simply when gambling on chemin de fer you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying 21 there is statistically 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 can boost your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when playing vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of complicated systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you wager on chemin de fer.

If when playing twenty-one you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you should hit or hold.

It’s remarkably simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the internet

Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they aid them make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their first two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the player because they could break the house when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You only need to know when the deck is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the edge is in your favor.

This is a simple commentary of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.

When wagering on 21 over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by approx 2 percent.