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If you love the fulfillment and adventure of a great card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you defeat the dealer?

Basically when wagering on chemin de fer you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the deck

When playing chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and lower 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 odds are in your favor.

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

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complicated plans have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you wager on Blackjack.

If when playing 21 you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centralized around a simple plan of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when wagering on 21 when you need to hit or hold.

It’s very easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find complimentary guides on the net

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

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme obtain an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in twenty-one and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the dealer because they assist him acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on their first two cards).

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

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

The high cards favour the player because they may break the house when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly 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 don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You only need to know at what point the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can up your bet when the odds are in your favor.

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

When gambling on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the expectation in your favour by to around 2 percent.