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

So, how do you beat the house?

Quite simply when gambling on blackjack you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on twenty-one there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

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

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying vingt-et-un all kinds of abstract schemes have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when playing twenty-one you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is assembled around a simple system of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when betting on blackjack when you need to take another card or stand.

It is extremely simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the net

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

Counting cards getting the edge in your favor

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

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the house in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on his 1st two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favor the gambler because they could break the house when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

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

You do not have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

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

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

When wagering on blackjack over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the expectation in your favour by approx two percent.