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If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Basically when betting on 21 you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on vingt-et-un there is statistically a better 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 are able to boost your action size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when wagering on blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of complex plans have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all straightforward when you bet on twenty-one.

If when betting on blackjack you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated system of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It informs you when playing chemin de fer when you should take another card or stand.

It’s surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can get no charge guides on the internet

Using it when you play vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the casino in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

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

In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the house can’t.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the casino when he hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You just need to know when the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can increase your action 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 playing chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will help in changing the odds in your favor by approx 2%.