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

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when playing chemin de fer you are tracking the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe

When betting on 21 there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action size 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 play, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.

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

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of complicated systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you play twenty-one.

If when playing vingt-et-un you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated system of how you wager depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when playing chemin de fer when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s very simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find free guides on the net

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

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favour

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

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they aid him make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

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

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favor the gambler because they might bust the croupier when he hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to tally the numbers 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 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 how card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into how the rationale works.

When wagering on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in altering the edge in your favor by approx 2 percent.