If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Basically when wagering on chemin de fer you are looking at 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 enjoying 21 there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when betting on 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complex plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you play Blackjack.

If when playing twenty-one you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around a basic system of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It tells you when playing vingt-et-un when you should take another card or stand.

It is unbelievably easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find free guides on the net

Using it when you wager on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting shifting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the dealer in twenty-one and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the house because they help her acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their initial two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer cannot.

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favor the gambler because they might break the casino when he hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Though blackjacks are, evenly divided between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can up your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When playing 21 over an extended term card counting will assist in altering the odds in your favor by approx 2%.