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If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a good card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you defeat the house?

Basically when wagering on 21 you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe

When enjoying 21 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 anticipate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favour.

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including "card counting" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you gamble on twenty-one.

If when gambling on twenty-one you count cards properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is amassed around an unsophisticated plan of how you wager based upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when betting on 21 when you need to take another card or stand.

It is very easy to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you bet on 21 will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Counting cards getting the edge in your favour

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

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on his initial 2 cards).

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

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing twenty-one 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 break the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

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

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

When gambling on 21 over an extended term card counting will assist in shifting the odds in your favour by approximately 2 percent.