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If you like the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, playing vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you defeat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on vingt-et-un you are watching the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on blackjack there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to boost your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favor.

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complex plans have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complex card counting is all in all straightforward when you play 21.

If when playing vingt-et-un you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around a basic approach of how you wager depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when playing twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.

It is very simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find complimentary guides on the internet

Using it when you gamble on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach realize an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist her make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on her initial two cards).

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

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

The high cards favor the gambler because they might bust the house when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the house 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 don’t have to count the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You simply need to know when the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the odds are in your favour.

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

When wagering on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will assist in altering the odds in your favour by approx 2 percent.