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If you love the blast and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Basically when betting on twenty-one you are tracking the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When enjoying chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play every 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 can increase your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.

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

fundamental tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been studying twenty-one all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you bet on Blackjack.

If when playing twenty-one you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around a simple approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when wagering on 21 when you need to take another card or hold.

It is remarkably easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get free cards on the internet

Using it when you play 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Card counting tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an edge over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the house because they help him make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their initial two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino can’t.

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the dealer when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to add up the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the house.

You just need to know when the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

This is a basic explanation of why card-counting systems work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.

When gambling on chemin de fer over an extended term card counting will aid in shifting the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.