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If you like the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

Basically when playing chemin de fer you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on blackjack there is mathematically 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 will be able to increase your wager size 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 wager on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favour.

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

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but although the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you wager on 21.

If when betting on vingt-et-un you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when playing blackjack when you need to hit or hold.

It is unbelievably simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can get free guides on the internet

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

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan gain an edge over the gambling den.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favor the house in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the casino because they help her acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the player because they could bust the croupier when he hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You do not have to add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You just need to know when the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can boost your wager when the edge is in your favour.

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

When betting on blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the edge in your favour by approx 2 percent.