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

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Basically when wagering on 21 you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might come from the shoe

When enjoying vingt-et-un there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.

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

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of complicated systems have arisen, including "card counting" but although the theory is complex card counting is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on 21.

If when gambling on chemin de fer you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a basic system of how you bet based upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when gambling on chemin de fer when you need to hit or stand.

It is unbelievably simple to do and is before long committed to memory and until then you can find free guides on the net

Using it when you gamble on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting getting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme gain an advantage over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the house because they help them make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

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

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

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

You just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can boost your wager when the odds are in your favor.

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

When betting on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the edge in your favour by approx 2 percent.