If you like the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, playing 21 is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on vingt-et-un you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When enjoying chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when playing twenty-one you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of complex plans have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you play 21.

If when playing twenty-one you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a simple plan of how you bet based upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when playing twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the web

Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Counting cards getting the expectation in your favor

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

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favour the house in 21 and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist her acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her initial two cards).

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

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the player because they might bust the dealer when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You just need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can jump your bet when the edge is 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 betting on 21 over an extended time card counting will aid in altering the expectation in your favour by approx 2 percent.