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If you love the fulfillment and excitement of a great card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, playing vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when gambling on blackjack you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might come from the deck

When wagering on vingt-et-un there is statistically a best 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 can boost your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when betting on blackjack you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of complicated plans have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you gamble on 21.

If when playing 21 you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is assembled around a basic plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when wagering on twenty-one when you should hit or stand.

It is extremely easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach realize an edge over the casino.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favour the house in twenty-one and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they help him acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino cannot.

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the casino when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.

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

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

When playing chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will assist in altering the expectation in your favour by approximately 2 percent.