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

So, how do you beat the house?

Quite simply when playing twenty-one you are tracking the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards can come from the shoe

When enjoying vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your bet size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

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

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

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating Blackjack all sorts of abstract schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you bet on 21.

If when playing twenty-one you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around a basic system of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when playing vingt-et-un when you should take another card or stand.

It is remarkably simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the web

Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan obtain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the croupier because they help them make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on her 1st two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier cannot.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

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

Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally divided between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.

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

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

When wagering on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will assist in altering the odds in your favor by approx 2%.