If you like the blast and adventure of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on 21 is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Basically when playing chemin de fer you are looking at the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the deck

When betting on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

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

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of complex schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complex counting cards is all in all very easy when you wager on twenty-one.

If when gambling on twenty-one you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated system of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It informs you when betting on twenty-one when you need to hit or hold.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get free cards on the internet

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

Card counting tilting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

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

Low cards favor the casino because they aid him make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on their first two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stay 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 gambling on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the player because they may break the casino when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

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

You don’t have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You simply need to know when the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the odds are in your favour.

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

When gambling on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favor by to around two percent.