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

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are tracking the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When playing chemin de fer 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 compute the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you gamble 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 should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of abstract schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you bet on twenty-one.

If when playing vingt-et-un you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favor.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a basic system of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when gambling on twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.

It is extremely simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find complimentary guides on the internet

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

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the casino because they assist him make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his first two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier cannot.

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

The high cards favour the player because they may break the house when he hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to tally the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You only need to know when the shoe is loaded or poor in high cards and you can up your action when the odds are in your favor.

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

When gambling on twenty-one over an extended time card counting will help in altering the expectation in your favour by to around 2 percent.