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If you love the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, betting on chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when betting on 21 you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When enjoying 21 there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

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

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying 21 all kinds of complex plans have been developed, including "card counting" but although the idea is complicated card counting is actually straightforward when you play chemin de fer.

If when wagering on twenty-one you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated approach of how you wager depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when wagering on 21 when you need to hit or hold.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the web

Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting shifting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the casino in blackjack and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist him make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on her 1st 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.

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

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

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

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

You only need to know at what point the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When gambling on blackjack over an extended term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by approximately 2%.