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If you love the fulfillment and excitement of a good card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when betting on vingt-et-un you are tracking the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when playing 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of complex systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex card counting is actually very easy when you bet on 21.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you count cards properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is amassed around a simple approach of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It informs you when playing chemin de fer when you should hit or stand.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the web

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

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the casino because they help them acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).

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

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

The high cards favor the player because they might bust the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the gambler 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 croupier.

You only need to know when the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can boost your bet when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When playing chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the edge in your favor by approximately 2 percent.