If you love the thrill and adventure of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the casino?

Basically when wagering on chemin de fer you are looking at the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease 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 bet size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when wagering on twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of complicated schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the idea is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you bet on 21.

If when wagering on chemin de fer you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around a basic approach 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 gambling on vingt-et-un when you should hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get no charge guides on the net

Using it when you play 21 will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the gambling den.

The reason for this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the house because they help them acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the house cannot.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Though 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 tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You only need to know at what point the deck is rich or depleted in high cards and you can up your action when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When gambling on blackjack over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the edge in your favor by to around 2%.