If you love the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on chemin de fer you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards can come from the shoe

When playing chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

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

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying 21 all sorts of complicated schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complex card counting is pretty much straightforward when you play 21.

If when wagering on 21 you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favor.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around a simple plan of how you wager based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when playing blackjack when you need to hit or stand.

It’s very simple to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find free guides on the net

Using it when you bet on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Card counting getting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system realize an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the house in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the dealer because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

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

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

The high cards favour the player because they could bust the casino when she hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Although blackjacks are, equally allocated between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.

You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You just need to know when the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the edge is in your favour.

This is a simple explanation of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.

When playing 21 over an extended term card counting will help in changing the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.