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If you love the blast and adventure of a good card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

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

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When playing vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

To do this when gambling on vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of abstract schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but although the theory is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you wager on twenty-one.

If when playing twenty-one you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around a simple system of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when betting on 21 when you need to take another card or hold.

It is very easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Counting cards getting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system gain an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the dealer in blackjack and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the croupier because they help him acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on his 1st two cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the house can’t.

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the player because they may break the casino when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

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

You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You just need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can boost your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When wagering on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in changing the expectation in your favour by approx 2%.