If you love the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the casino?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when wagering on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying Blackjack all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you gamble on chemin de fer.

If when gambling on blackjack you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated system of how you wager based upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the best hand to play without card counting. It tells you when gambling on twenty-one when you should hit or stand.

It is extremely simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can get no charge guides on the internet

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

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the croupier because they assist her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his initial 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino cannot.

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the player because they may break the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You only need to know when the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can jump your action when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When betting on chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will assist in shifting the expectation in your favor by approx two percent.