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If you love the fulfillment and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you beat the casino?

Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When playing blackjack there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to increase your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

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

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating chemin de fer all sorts of complicated plans have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you bet on 21.

If when wagering on blackjack you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is amassed around a basic system of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to play without card counting. It tells you when wagering on 21 when you need to hit or hold.

It is extremely simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the web

Using it when you gamble on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Counting cards getting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme realize an advantage over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the dealer because they aid her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their initial two cards).

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

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the player because they might break the house when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.

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

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

When betting on chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will assist in shifting the expectation in your favour by approx 2%.