If you love the fulfillment and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, playing vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might come from the deck

When wagering on chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

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

fundamental strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying 21 all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the idea is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you play chemin de fer.

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

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around a basic approach of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when playing blackjack when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find complimentary guides on the net

Using it when you wager on 21 will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting shifting the odds in your favor

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

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the dealer because they aid her acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his 1st 2 cards).

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

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

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

Though blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an advantage.

You don’t have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You only need to know when the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can boost your bet when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When gambling on 21 over an extended time card counting will aid in altering the expectation in your favor by approx 2 percent.