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If you love the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, gambling on 21 is for you.

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when wagering on chemin de fer you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When wagering on chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

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

fundamental tactics and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complex plans have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you bet on chemin de fer.

If when wagering on twenty-one you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a simple system of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when betting on twenty-one when you should hit or hold.

It’s remarkably easy to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find free cards on the internet

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

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favour

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

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they help him acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on her 1st 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer cannot.

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the player because they might bust the house when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the croupier and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the gambler 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 shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the odds are in your favor.

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

When playing chemin de fer over an extended term card counting will aid in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx two percent.