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If you love the fulfillment and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you beat the casino?

Quite simply when gambling 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 shoe

When enjoying vingt-et-un 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 anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when gambling on twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of abstract systems have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complex card counting is pretty much very easy when you play twenty-one.

If when betting on vingt-et-un you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you wager depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play without card counting. It informs you when betting on twenty-one when you should hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free guides on the net

Using it when you gamble on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme obtain an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the house in blackjack and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on his initial 2 cards).

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

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

The high cards favour the player because they could bust the house when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You just need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or poor in high cards and you can jump your bet when the edge is in your favour.

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

When playing vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the edge in your favor by approximately 2 percent.