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If you like the blast and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

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

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying 21 there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances 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 the edge is not.

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

To do this when betting on 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating 21 all kinds of complicated schemes have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you play twenty-one.

If when wagering on twenty-one you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a basic system of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when wagering on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or hold.

It is unbelievably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can get no charge guides on the web

Using it when you gamble on blackjack will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting system realize an edge over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the house because they help them make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on their 1st two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

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

The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the dealer when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, equally divided 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 don’t have to add up the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You just need to know at what point the deck is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can jump your action when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When gambling on 21 over an extended term card counting will help in altering the expectation in your favour by approximately two percent.