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If you love the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are looking at the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can come from the shoe

When playing blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as 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 wager amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when gambling on twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying twenty-one all kinds of abstract schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all straightforward when you play 21.

If when betting on chemin de fer you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favor.

21 Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around a simple system of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when betting on 21 when you should 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 play twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach realize an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favor the casino in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the dealer because they aid them make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on their initial 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the casino when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You only need to know at what point the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can up your wager when the edge is in your favour.

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

When playing twenty-one over an extended term card counting will assist in tilting the odds in your favour by to around two percent.