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If you love the fulfillment and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when betting on twenty-one you are looking at the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the shoe

When betting on twenty-one there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your action size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when wagering on 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complicated plans have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is actually straightforward when you bet on 21.

If when gambling on chemin de fer you card count properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around a simple plan of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It tells you when playing blackjack when you need to take another card or hold.

It is remarkably simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan realize an edge 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 favour the casino because they aid her acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on their initial 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the gambler because they could bust the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You only need to know at what point the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the odds are in your favor.

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

When playing chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the expectation in your favor by to around 2 percent.