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If you love the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Basically when wagering on 21 you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might come from the deck

When playing chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to boost your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when playing chemin de fer you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating 21 all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is actually straightforward when you gamble on twenty-one.

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

21 Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when wagering on 21 when you need to take another card or hold.

It’s extremely easy to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the net

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

Card counting getting the odds in your favour

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

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the croupier in chemin de fer and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist them acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on his initial two cards).

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

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

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

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

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You only need to know when the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can up your action when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When playing 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the odds in your favor by approx 2%.