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If you like the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when betting on twenty-one you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When betting on chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

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

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of complicated schemes have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complex counting cards is all in all very easy when you wager on twenty-one.

If when betting on 21 you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It informs you when betting on blackjack when you need to take another card or hold.

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

Using it when you bet on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Counting cards getting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system obtain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the house because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on her initial two cards).

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

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

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

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

You just need to know when the deck is rich or poor in high cards and you can jump your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When betting on blackjack over an extended time card counting will assist in shifting the edge in your favor by to around 2 percent.