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If you like the blast and adventure of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on vingt-et-un you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When playing twenty-one there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your bet amount 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 wager size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when playing twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complicated plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you wager on 21.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you card count properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when betting on vingt-et-un when you should hit or hold.

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

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

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan gain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the dealer in 21 and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they aid him make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

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

The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You simply need to know when the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can up your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When betting on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the edge in your favour by approx 2%.