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

So, how do you defeat the croupier?

Quite simply when gambling on blackjack you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying blackjack there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are only going to win 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 playing chemin de fer you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you play 21.

If when wagering on 21 you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around a simple approach of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when wagering on 21 when you should hit or hold.

It’s remarkably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can find complimentary guides on the web

Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Card counting tilting the edge in your favor

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

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the croupier because they help her acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on their 1st two cards).

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

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the player because they could bust the casino when he hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

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

You don’t have to add up the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

You just need to know at what point the shoe is flush or reduced in high cards and you can jump your bet when the edge is in your favor.

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

When gambling on blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the edge in your favour by approx two percent.