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If you like the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the deck

When playing blackjack there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.

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

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of abstract plans have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is all in all straightforward when you bet on 21.

If when gambling on chemin de fer you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated approach of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It tells you when playing twenty-one when you need to hit or stand.

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

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

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the croupier in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the house because they help him acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her 1st 2 cards).

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

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

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

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

You don’t have to count the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You only need to know at what point the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can increase your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

This is a simple commentary of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.

When wagering on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the expectation in your favour by approximately 2%.