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If you like the blast and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when wagering on twenty-one you are studying the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe

When gambling on vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your action size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating 21 all sorts of complex systems have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is all in all very easy when you play 21.

If when gambling on chemin de fer you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when wagering on 21 when you should hit or stand.

It’s extremely simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the web

Using it when you gamble on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards getting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme gain an advantage over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist him make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on her first two cards).

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

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the player because they may bust the house when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You just need to know at what point the deck is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can jump your action when the odds are in your favor.

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

When wagering on 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the edge in your favour by approximately two percent.