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If you love the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how do you defeat the house?

Quite simply when wagering on twenty-one you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can come from the shoe

When wagering on 21 there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when playing twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying twenty-one all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when wagering on twenty-one you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated plan of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when playing twenty-one when you need to hit or hold.

It is extremely easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find no charge guides on the web

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

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach obtain an advantage over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the croupier in 21 and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the casino because they help him acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on her first 2 cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer cannot.

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might break the dealer when he hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Though blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the casino and the player, 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 count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You only need to know when the shoe is loaded or poor in high cards and you can jump your wager when the odds are in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favour by approx two percent.