If you like the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on 21 is for you.

So, how do you defeat the croupier?

Basically when betting on twenty-one you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might come from the shoe

When enjoying blackjack there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease 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 bet size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when wagering on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complicated systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you gamble on chemin de fer.

If when gambling on blackjack you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or stand.

It’s remarkably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find complimentary guides on the net

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

Card counting tilting the edge in your favor

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

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the casino in blackjack and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the casino because they assist her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favor the player because they may break the casino when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly distributed between the croupier and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.

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

You only need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can jump your wager when the edge is in your favor.

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

When betting on chemin de fer over an extended term card counting will aid in tilting the odds in your favour by to around 2 percent.