If you like the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on 21 is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

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

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the deck

When playing chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they 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 betting on twenty-one you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of complex systems have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex card counting is pretty much straightforward when you play 21.

If when wagering on 21 you card count properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centralized around a basic system of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when gambling on chemin de fer when you need to hit or hold.

It is extremely simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the net

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

Card counting tilting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach gain an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the casino because they assist him make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on his initial 2 cards).

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

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the casino when he hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You simply need to know when the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the edge is in your favour.

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

When gambling on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favour by approx two percent.