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If you like the thrill and adventure of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when wagering on blackjack you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might be dealt from the deck

When wagering on blackjack there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower 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 wager size when the risks are in your favor.

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

fundamental tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complicated systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you play chemin de fer.

If when betting on 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centered around a basic approach of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when playing 21 when you should take another card or hold.

It is unbelievably easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can get free cards on the internet

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

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the dealer in twenty-one and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the house because they aid him acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on their first 2 cards).

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

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the player because they could break the house when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Although blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the dealer and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the odds are in your favor.

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

When playing vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the edge in your favor by approx 2%.