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If you like the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when playing vingt-et-un you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe

When playing twenty-one there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when playing 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying chemin de fer all kinds of complicated plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the idea is complex card counting is pretty much very easy when you gamble on 21.

If when wagering on 21 you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around a basic approach of how you wager based upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the best hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when betting on vingt-et-un when you should hit or hold.

It is remarkably simple to do and is before long committed to memory and until then you can find complimentary cards on the internet

Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Card counting shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan gain an edge over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in 21 and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they help her make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her 1st two cards).

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

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favor the gambler because they could bust the casino when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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 casino.

You only need to know when the deck is rich or depleted in high cards and you can up your action when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When playing 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in altering the odds in your favor by to around 2 percent.