If you love the fulfillment and excitement of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the croupier?

Basically when betting on 21 you are studying the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might come from the deck

When enjoying vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when they are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating Blackjack all sorts of complex plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you wager on Blackjack.

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

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around a simple approach of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when playing blackjack when you should hit or hold.

It’s remarkably simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find free guides on the internet

Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Counting cards tilting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach realize an edge over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the dealer in 21 and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they assist him acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her first 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the gambler because they might bust the dealer when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You simply need to know when the deck is rich or poor in high cards and you can elevate your action when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When playing twenty-one over an extended term card counting will help in changing the odds in your favour by approximately two percent.