Playing Chemin de fer — to Win

If you like the thrill and adventure of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you defeat the house?

Quite simply when playing chemin de fer you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When playing twenty-one 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 chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are 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 gambling on twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of complex systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you wager on twenty-one.

If when playing vingt-et-un you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is assembled around a basic plan of how you wager depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when gambling on blackjack when you should hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free guides on the internet

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

Counting cards getting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favour the house in blackjack and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they help her make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on their 1st two cards).

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

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. 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 gambler because they might bust the croupier when he hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

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

You don’t have to tally the numbers 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 reduced in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the odds are in your favour.

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

When gambling on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the edge in your favor by approximately 2 percent.

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