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If you like the blast and excitement of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the house?

Quite simply when wagering on vingt-et-un you are observing the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to boost your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when betting on vingt-et-un you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been investigating chemin de fer all sorts of complicated systems have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complex card counting is all in all straightforward when you wager on twenty-one.

If when betting on 21 you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favor.

Chemin de fer basic strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around a unsophisticated approach of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when gambling on blackjack when you need to hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free guides on the web

Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme gain an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the house in blackjack and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the dealer because they help her acquire winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favor the player because they might break the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When betting on 21 over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the edge in your favor by approximately 2 percent.