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If you love the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when playing twenty-one you are watching the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the deck

When enjoying chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when gambling on chemin de fer you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of complex schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you bet on twenty-one.

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

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated plan of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It informs you when wagering on chemin de fer when you need to hit or hold.

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

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

Counting cards getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach obtain an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the dealer in blackjack and high cards favor the player.

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

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

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

The high cards favor the gambler because they might break the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You just need to know when the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the expectation is in your favour.

This is a basic breakdown of why card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into why the logic works.

When playing vingt-et-un over an extended time card counting will aid in tilting the edge in your favour by to around 2 percent.