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If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, playing 21 is for you.

So, how do you beat the casino?

Basically when gambling on chemin de fer you are observing the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the shoe

When gambling 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 calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are 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 favor.

To do this when wagering on vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating Blackjack all sorts of abstract systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you wager on twenty-one.

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

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around a simple system of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when playing twenty-one when you need to hit or stand.

It is very simple to do and is before long committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the internet

Using it when you bet on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan gain an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the casino because they assist them make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favor the gambler because they might break the house when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

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

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

You only need to know when the deck is rich or poor in high cards and you can boost your bet when the odds are in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will help in changing the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.