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If you like the blast and excitement of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Basically when wagering on 21 you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe

When wagering on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is known as 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 bet size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

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

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of abstract schemes have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you bet on Blackjack.

If when betting on chemin de fer you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is assembled around a basic system of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when gambling on blackjack when you need to take another card or hold.

It is extremely simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the net

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

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting system realize an edge over the gambling den.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the house in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist him acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her first 2 cards).

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

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may break the casino when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the croupier and the player, 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 numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or poor in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the edge is in your favour.

This is a simple account of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.

When playing twenty-one over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the edge in your favour by approx 2%.