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If you love the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are studying the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the shoe

When wagering on 21 there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

To do this when gambling on vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of complicated schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is actually straightforward when you wager on chemin de fer.

If when betting on chemin de fer you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Blackjack 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 gambling on vingt-et-un when you should take another card or stand.

It’s surprisingly simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the internet

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

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the croupier because they help her acquire winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her initial two cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house cannot.

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

The high cards favor the player because they might break the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Although blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the gambler 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 only need to know at what point the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can jump your wager when the odds are in your favour.

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

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