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If you like the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when wagering on chemin de fer you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck

When enjoying vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

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

To do this when wagering on twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of abstract schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complex card counting is pretty much straightforward when you wager on 21.

If when wagering on 21 you count cards properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is assembled around a simple plan of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when gambling on 21 when you should take another card or stand.

It’s extremely easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get no charge guides on the web

Using it when you play blackjack will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards getting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system realize an advantage over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the house in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they aid them acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).

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

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may break the house when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You just need to know when the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can increase your bet when the odds are in your favour.

This is a simple breakdown of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.

When playing blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in changing the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.