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

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when betting on blackjack you are tracking the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying chemin de fer there is statistically a best 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 action size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when wagering on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all kinds of complex plans have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when betting on twenty-one you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated approach of how you wager depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when gambling on twenty-one when you should hit or stand.

It is unbelievably easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find free cards on the web

Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favour

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

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist them make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on his initial 2 cards).

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

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may bust the dealer when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to tally 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 deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can boost your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

This is a basic commentary of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.

When betting on 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the odds in your favor by approximately two percent.