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If you like the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you defeat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on vingt-et-un you are watching the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck

When enjoying 21 there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

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

To do this when gambling on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you wager on twenty-one.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you count cards correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated system of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when playing vingt-et-un when you should hit or stand.

It’s extremely easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the net

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

Counting cards shifting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favor the croupier in 21 and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they help him make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her 1st 2 cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier can’t.

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the player because they might bust the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Though blackjacks are, evenly distributed between the casino and the player, 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 tally the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You only need to know at what point the deck is rich or depleted in high cards and you can boost your action when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When playing twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favor by to around two percent.