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If you like the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, playing chemin de fer is for you.

So, how can you defeat the dealer?

Basically when playing blackjack you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the shoe

When enjoying blackjack 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 anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your action size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when wagering on vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is all in all very easy when you gamble on 21.

If when wagering on 21 you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated system of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not counting cards. It informs you when gambling on chemin de fer when you need to take another card or hold.

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

Using it when you play 21 will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Counting cards getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach obtain an advantage over the casino.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the house in 21 and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her 1st 2 cards).

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

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may break the dealer when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the house and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.

You don’t have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You only need to know when the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can increase your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When wagering on 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the expectation in your favour by approx two percent.