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If you love the fulfillment and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you beat the dealer?

Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You are 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 favor.

To do this when betting on 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying 21 all kinds of abstract systems have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you play 21.

If when gambling on blackjack you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It informs you when playing blackjack when you need to take another card or hold.

It’s remarkably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get complimentary guides on the internet

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

Card counting shifting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an advantage over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

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

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

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

The high cards favor the gambler because they might break the casino when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to compute the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You only need to know at what point the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can increase your bet when the expectation is 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 playing vingt-et-un over an extended term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx two percent.