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If you like the blast and excitement of a great card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, gambling on 21 is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might come from the shoe

When betting on twenty-one there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all kinds of complicated schemes have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually very easy when you play 21.

If when betting on twenty-one you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

Chemin de fer Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated system of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when gambling on twenty-one when you should take another card or stand.

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

Using it when you bet on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Card counting getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the croupier in chemin de fer and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they help them acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer cannot.

The casino 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 loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favor the gambler because they might break the casino when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the casino and the player, 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 to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can increase your action when the edge is in your favor.

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

When playing chemin de fer over an extended term card counting will assist in shifting the odds in your favour by to around 2%.