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If you love the blast and excitement of a good card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you defeat the house?

Quite simply when gambling on vingt-et-un you are tracking the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When playing 21 there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when gambling on chemin de fer you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of abstract plans have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when wagering on twenty-one you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the edge to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated system of how you wager based upon the cards you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when playing twenty-one when you need to hit or stand.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find free cards on the internet

Using it when you bet on blackjack will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

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

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in twenty-one and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the casino because they assist her make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer can’t.

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the casino when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You simply need to know when the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can up your bet when the edge is in your favour.

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

When betting on chemin de fer over an extended time card counting will help in altering the odds in your favor by approximately two percent.