Playing Chemin de fer — to Win
Posted in Blackjack on 06/21/2025 05:25 am by Susan
If you love the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.
So, how can you defeat the house?
Basically when playing 21 you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:
1. The cards in your hand
2. What cards can come from the shoe
When betting on chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your wager size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.
You’re only going to win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the risks are in your favour.
To do this when playing vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.
Basic strategy and counting cards
Since professionals and academics have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you bet on twenty-one.
If when wagering on blackjack you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favour.
Twenty-one Basic Strategy
Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around a basic plan of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when betting on chemin de fer when you need to hit or hold.
It’s surprisingly simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find no charge guides on the internet
Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.
Card counting shifting the edge in your favour
Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling den.
The reason this is easy.
Low cards favour the croupier in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the gambler.
Low cards favour the casino because they aid them acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their initial 2 cards).
In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house cannot.
The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break them.
The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.
Although blackjacks are, equally divided between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.
You don’t have to add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.
You only need to know when the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can up your action when the edge is in your favour.
This is a simple explanation of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into why the logic works.
When playing blackjack over an extended time card counting will aid in shifting the edge in your favor by approximately 2 percent.