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If you like the blast and adventure of a great card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favor, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing twenty-one you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should come from the shoe

When betting on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when playing chemin de fer you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been studying 21 all sorts of complicated schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is all in all very easy when you bet on 21.

If when gambling on twenty-one you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favor.

21 Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated approach of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It informs you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the net

Using it when you play 21 will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Counting cards getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting system obtain an advantage over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the casino in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the casino because they aid him make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on her initial two cards).

In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house cannot.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

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

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

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

You just need to know when the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can up your bet when the edge is in your favor.

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

When betting on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the edge in your favor by approximately 2 percent.